419 scam: Mr Richard Oba <benokeke---332@att.net> For Your Effort $500,000

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348186744628
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.
- revfrpaulwilson001@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Richard Oba <benokeke---332@att.net>
Reply-To: revfrpaulwilson001@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 03:57:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: For Your Effort $500,000

I am very sorry for not contacting you on time. I hope you still remmembered me, Mr, Richard Oba, your business patner you assisted some years ago, due to some reasons we were not enable to finalized the business, with the help of my China friend i was enable to comclude the contract with Nigeria. NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLUM COOPERATION (NNPC). I have left the country to china for another investment with my friend. For your passed effort i decided to compensate you with a sum $500,000 usd which I promised God that I must forget your effort. I have left bank draft with my Rev Fr Paul Wilson. Kindly bear with me I could have deliver it by my good self to you, but due to the tight schedule with my investment. Please, contact him through his email to deliver the bank draft to you.
Below is his contacts:

Rev Fr Paul Wilson
Email:revfrpaulwilson001@hotmail.com
Tel:+234-8186-744-628

We thank God at last we made it through.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr, Richard Oba.

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