419 scam: hudak171@gmail.com 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:

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:
- "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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.
- vangurt40@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: hudak171@gmail.com
Reply-To: vangurt40@gmail.com
Date: 12 May 2022 07:16:13 +0200
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Dear: Sir,

I am aware that this letter had come to you as a surprise as we had not met before or handled any business deal in the past. Nevertheless, I have contacted you with genuine intentions, and I hope I can trust you with this Inheritance opportunity which I explain below.

My name is Mr. MR Classin Joe, an account manager with TD Canada Trust Bank, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I retrieved your contact address in my search for the next of kin to a deceased customer of our bank MR. HENRY CRAIS, a citizen of your country, lived and died in Toronto from Cardiac Arrest in 2012. Unfortunately, this customer died intestate, leaving his bank account with an open beneficiary status. All efforts made by our bank to locate his relatives have been unsuccessful, so I decided to write to you as I have monitored this account in the bank for almost ten years now and no one has come forth with any claim. I want to present you to our bank as his next of kin to claim this dormant account worth USD 10.764 Million (Ten Million Seven Hundred Sixty Four Thousand US Dollars).

You will apply to the bank as an extended relative to the deceased customer while I work from the inside to ensure all needed information and evidence is provided to you to back up your claim. The account has an open beneficiary status, which is why I have contacted you to come forth and claim the funds as the next of kin and beneficiary. Since he is from your country, it is easy for you to become his official next of kin. If we do not claim the funds now, the funds would be reverted to the system as the unclaimed estate at the expiration of a 10-year dormancy period.

I assure you that this transaction will be handled under due inheritance procedures, and every necessary legitimate arrangement will be put in place to make you the real beneficiary of the inheritance funds. It also requires all confidentiality at this stage, and I believe you are ready to keep this discreet until you can claim the funds from the bank. Once the funds are released to you, they will be shared between the two of us.

Please send your response to my email: vangurt40@gmail.com indicating readiness to proceed with this transaction. Then I will give you more details, and we shall have an in-depth discussion regarding the successful completion of this transaction.
I await your response.

Sincerely

vangurt40@gmail.com

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