419 scam: "ECITIC BANK CHINA" <dharris@platinum1.com> 77.55.216.229

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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: "ECITIC BANK CHINA" <dharris@platinum1.com>
Reply-To: colemanr18@aol.com
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 21:16:11 +0200
Subject: 77.55.216.229

Hello Email User,

Compliments of the season,i hope you are in good health.I work with a financial institution here in china and i am writing to you for an opportunity that will benefit us both immensely.I have discovered an abandon over-due inheritance fund and i have made several attempts to locate any of my late client's extended relatives and this has proved unsuccessful. After my several unsuccessful attempts to locate any member of his family hence i contacted you and i am contacting you to assist in claiming and receiving the fund left behind by late customer before they get confiscated or declared unclaimed. If you are interested in this transaction,kindly get back to me asap so that i can give the full details about this transaction.

However,i assure you that will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in china once the fund is transferred to your bank account.The funds i am referring to is right here in this bank floating in suspense account,therefore i solicit for your cooperation to be in collaboration with me to have this done. If you are interested in this transaction,I will need you to provide the following information urgently to enable the attorney start the processing of the all the relevant legal documents for the money remittance. all i want you to do for me now is to give me your Name: , Address: , Tel:, Age: , Sex:, Occupation: so that i can give you more details.

I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely,
Fund Allocation Officer.
Ecitic Bank of China.

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