419 scam: "Mr. Warren Buffett"<info@redstransfer.com> From Buffett Charitable Organizations Foundation

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "because it still remains the fastest medium of communication" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- buffettfoundation@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Warren Buffett" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <buffettfoundation@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:50:40 -0800
Subject: From Buffett Charitable Organizations Foundation

From Buffett Charitable Organizations Foundation,

Attention

You have been gifted $3.8 Million USD donation fund. Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication, i got your email through web site page when we was searching for a trust worthy partner for assistance. You have been selected among lucky individuals to receive a cash sum of $3.8 Million USD. Please see the link below:

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/08/business/la-fi-mo-warren-buffett-gates-20130708

My wife and I have decided to donate the sum of $3.8 Million USD to you as part of our charity project from our $12 Billion Usd we mapped out to help people before she died. My wife Susan has cancer and she died at Colchester regional hospital. Before she died we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the red cross, hospitals in truro where Susan underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Africa and Asia that fight cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes. We have kept just 30% of the entire sum to our self for the remaining days because i am sick and am writing you from hospital computer because i don’t know when i will die.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($3.8 Million) which have been donated to you. You are to Contact us via this email for your claim:

Mr. Warren Buffett Charitable Foundation,

Email (buffettfoundation@gmail.com)

You are to Re-confirm your details below while contacting for your claim.

Your Full Names.................

You Country/Contact Address................

Your Personal Mobile Telephone Number...............

I will contact our payout bank of this charitable donation once i hear from you and forward your details to them for payments. I am hoping that you will use the money wisely and over there in your country. please you have to do your part to help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this service as we will not be involved in any fraudulent act and will never be.

Sign

Mr. Warren Buffett

Billionaire investor

buffettfoundation@gmail.com

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