419 scam: "Mr William Richard" <offilefile222@aol.com> Your Urgent Respond Is Needed. NEXT OF KIN.

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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: "Mr William Richard" <offilefile222@aol.com>
Reply-To: info@officefiles.cf
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:35:20 +0100
Subject: Your Urgent Respond Is Needed. NEXT OF KIN.

I am Mr William Richard,the deputy system and control director at Coutts
Private Wealth Management here in UK, I write to solicit for support and
assistance from you to carry out this business opportunity in my
bank.Lying in an inactive account is the sum of USD$71,700,000 Million,(
Seventy One Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars belonging to a
foreign customer(Mr.Neil Slater) who was a gas consultant here in
UK,he happened to be deceased during a vacation trip with his
wife(Mrs.Helen Slater) on board One-Two-Go Orient-Thai Airlines flight
OG269 Phuket Airport plane crash of Monday,17th September 2007 from
Bangkok to Phuket. Info of this crash was on the news which we have tried
to notify his relatives but to no avail, see links below for more
detailed information:

1..http://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/update-on-one-two-go-airlines-crash-in-phuket-thailand/
2.. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/17/content_6743041.htm

All I require now is your honest co-operation; confidentiality and trust
to enable us to see this transaction through. I guarantee you 100 %
success and that this business
transaction will be executed under the ambit of law and will also protect
you from any breach of the contract. Please provide me the following as we
have 14 working days to run it through:

1. Your full name..........
2. Telephone number...
3. Contact address........
4. Age....................
5. Gender.................
6. Occupation.............

And your scan copy of your iD or International passport Please on your
confirmation of this message and indicating your interest I will furnish
you with more information's. Contact me back Your assent to this e-mail
and business proposal will be highly appreciated. Let me hear from you
soon

Regards,
Mr William Richard.
Managing Accounting

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