419 scam: Catherine <laboratorio@colfarma.org.ar> Urgent Response

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Catherine <laboratorio@colfarma.org.ar>
Reply-To: <catherinej0nes@yandex.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:15:39 -0800
Subject: Urgent Response

Greetings,

My name are Catherine Jones. from England. I write this email to you with hopes that you will read it with an open mind, because what I seek is your understanding, help and partnership in my current request. For your benefit, a brief insight to my story.

I am a private banker, and one of my client who is now deceased fixed a deposit of GBP£1.5M for a duration of 60 months. This deposit is due in January 2024, unfortunately my client passed-on last May with no heir, knowing what would happen should the news of his demise reaches the management of my institution I had the news, and have been covering up ever since.

You may be thinking why I have to hide this news from the management, so for clarity you must know that the management of my institution have a reputation of pocketing funds belonging to deceased customers with no heir, legally they are obligated to report such funds to the government but for the fact that I am writing you about this, should tell you that they do otherwise.

I am not going to bug you to sympathetic words in order to justify what am about to do, because I'd rather tell you what it is that I want to do. I brought in this client to my institution as a customer, so for that reason, I want to pocket the fortune and I need your help to do it.

So, if you think this is something you can do please reply, there's 50% share in it for you, but if not, just delete this email and forget that I ever wrote you.

I do look forward to reading from you and possibly partnering with you in this beneficial request.

Cheers,
Catherine Jones.

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