419 scam: mail <mal@rising-group.com> Compliments of the season! (ACKNOWLEDGE MESSAGE)

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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:
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
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.
- confidential.mailbox0@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mail <mal@rising-group.com>
Reply-To: confidential.mailbox00@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:46:59 +0100
Subject: Compliments of the season! (ACKNOWLEDGE MESSAGE)

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Compliments of the season!

My names is Johnson Dada Sata. I am 22 years old and I am the adopted
Son of the former president of Zambia, late President Sata Nguvu
Michael, who dies in London's King Edward VII hospital and was buried
on Tuesday 10th of November 2014, May his gentle soul rest in perfect
peace Amen. Because of the love my father late Michael Sata has for the
orphans and the less privileges, I was adopted by him on 23rd September
2011 on his swearing in ceremony. I performed and sang as one of the
Orphan who graced the occasion. That day was the happiest day of my
life because my father the late president Michael announced to the
gathering that from that day onward he will be my father and I will be
his Son and that everything I wish in life will be given to me.

Three months before his sudden death, (the shocked day of my life),
Late President Michael Sata, (my father) secretly told me in his office
about Investment Bond of US35,500,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) he placed into fixed/bonded
assets of a Finance Company in LONDON-UK that trades with Euroclear and
triple AAA rated banks in the world, through the company of his
FINANCIAL BROKER IN LONDON.

According to him, he told me that he does not want me to suffer in
this life, as saying that his biological son (Mulenga Sata) can take an
advantage of his estate against me, and for that he made me the next of
kin of the Investment Bond/assets placed with the Finance Company in
LONDON-UK.

I am burdened in securing the Investment funds for a lucrative
business ventures that will yield reasonable return on Investments,
hence I contacted you to get all the advice for investment placement
and suggestions guidance as a young individual who want to succeed in
investment, so that I will link you up with my late father's FINANCIAL
BROKER IN LONDON-UK, for your Banker's confirmation of the Bonded
assets and subsequent wire transfer of the funds for the investment.

I am presently in Houston Texas, United States of America on a visit
to one of our family member. You can call me on this number:
(1-281-969-4266) and my private email is:
confidential.mailbox0@gmail.com , for us to discuss more details on
this transaction.

I thank you in advance in anticipation for your assistance to enable
me achieve my goal in life., without interference of the biological son
of my late father (Mulenga Sata).

Yours sincerely,
Johnson Dada Sata

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