419 scam: Timothy Halpain<contact@chalington.co.uk> Profitable Business deal

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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:
- "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 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.
- timpain.53@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Timothy Halpain<contact@chalington.co.uk>
Reply-To: timpain.53@hotmail.com
Date: 10 Nov 2021 14:16:34 +0100
Subject: Profitable Business deal

I wish you the best of the day.

I am contacting you for important business transaction
that will change our life for the better. Before I go further, I
will like to start by introducing myself. My name is Mr. Timothy
Halpain the Principal Attorney of Brown Solicitors LLP, UK. I was
the personal attorney to my late client(Mr. Aleksei Å amÅ¡ula) who
is Russian Canadian and international oil magnet. My late client
died in a fatal accident in 2019 shortly after closing a business
deal with the oil giant; BP PLC. My late client was childless and
a widower.

He left a deposit of â‚¬11,200,000.00(Eleven Million Two Hundred
Thousand Euro) in a bank in Atlanta Georgia USA.

After his death, I have been trying to locate his extended
relative but all my effort has so far proved abortive.
According to the Atlanta inheritance law, the fund will be
declared "unclaimed" fund after some years if nobody applied as
heir to the deceased.

I received a notification from the bank as the deceased attorney
to present the bank with the deceased heir or the fund will be
confiscated and declared as fund without owner.

I am seeking for your consent and cooperation to present you to
the bank as the heir to my deceased client and the new
beneficiary of his fund with the bank.

I would suggest splitting the fortune; you get 40% of the money
and I would be entitled to 40%. Then the remaining 20% will be
donated to charity organizations as a way of giving back to the
society for this wonderful lifetime opportunity.

I am assuring you that the transaction will be executed legally
and there will be no risk involved during the course of executing
this transaction, I will personally oversee the process of the
transfer of funds from the bank to your account.

You can contact me on my private email: timpain.53@hotmail.com
for more details on how to proceed further.

Best regards,
Timothy Halpain LLB, (Hons)

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