419 scam: "Miss marian marry" <mcc2000@pchome.com.tw> URGENT RESPONSE.

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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:

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.
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss marian marry" <mcc2000@pchome.com.tw>
Reply-To: <miss.marianmarry@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:09:31 +0200
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE.

I pray this message reaches you in the best of health and imaan
I am Miss marian marry, the Executive Director, Cooperate and Investment Banking, of African Development Bank Nigeria Plc. i have a proposal for you but i do not know if it is against your ethics.i
hope you will accept my message in good faith.

I discovered a dormant acct in my office, as Group Executive Director, Executive Director, Cooperate and Investment Banking Group Plc. It will be in my interest to transfer this fund worth 18.8 million usd dollar in an account offshore. If you can be a collaborator/partner to this please indicate interest immediately for us to proceed.

I want to release the money to you as the relative to our deceased customer (Mr.ABDULRAHMAN HAMAD AL BASSAM ) who died a long with her supposed NEXT OF KIN since 31 January 2000. The Banking laws here does not allow such money to stay more than 14 years,because the money will be recalled to the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.

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