419 scam: "ATTORNEY EARL HUFFMAN"<test@chaheng.com> Re: FUNDS OF €10,500,000,00 TO BE CLAIM BY YOU

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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)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- earlhuffman01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ATTORNEY EARL HUFFMAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <earlhuffman01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 01:48:01 -0800
Subject: Re: FUNDS OF €10,500,000,00 TO BE CLAIM BY YOU

Dear Partner,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My name is Earl Huffman, a personal Attorney to Late Engr. Mrs Hana, who worked with Chinese Mining Company for Thirteen years.

She died along side with her immediate family during the Madrid Train Bombing, which occurred in 2004 since then all my several inquiries here to locate any of my clients extended relatives, has proved unsuccessful.

Thus, I decided to search with her name to locate any member of her extended family hence I saw your name. I know you may not be biologically related to her but since you both bear the same surname, I decided to contact you to enable us retrieve this deposit from the Bank here in Spain.

Before the catastrophe; she had a balance deposit of €10,500,000,00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros Only) with a Safe bank. As the attorney to my late client, the bank has mandated me to present a member of her family heir/inheritor) to make Claims or the deposited fund will be confiscated and taken to the Bureau of Bank Security as unclaimed. After preliminary efforts of search for a direct family member which came to no avail, I was given an ultimatum to look for some relative to come for the claim or have the fund liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws.

The said Bank has mandated me to present a member of her family (heir/inheritor) to make claim or the Fund will be confiscated and taken to the bureau of Federal Treasury Account as unclaimed. With regards to this, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the funds would be released to you for our disbursement on the ratio of 50:50 between us.

All I require of you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this transaction would be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. You can get across to me via Email: earlhuffman01@gmail.com for further clarification.

Do get back to me as well even when you are not willing to collaborate with me so as to further my search for other partner explanations.

Yours Faithfully,
Earl Huffman
Snr Principal Earl Huffman Advocate

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