419 scam: "Ms. Agatha Calypso"<calypsoagatha@yahoo.uk> Re: My dear friend please reply after reading and understanding my mail

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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!

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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.
- +2348188184406
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.
- calypsoagatha@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms. Agatha Calypso" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <calypsoagatha@rocketmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:47:44 -0700
Subject: Re: My dear friend please reply after reading and understanding my mail

Hello My Dear Friend,
Good Morning.

How are you and your family? I hope everybody is in good health.
Please i would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself and this business proposal to you and it can change both of our life. My name is Ms.Agatha Calypso am a young healthy lady of 36 years of age,I'm working as a senior staff customer care official with FLOWER BIRD PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED,NIGERIA.

Should encase you are surprise of how i got your contact information,please i got it on internet when i was making researching of a reputable and honest matured business person from India; My reason of contacting you is that my boss want to come go India and buy some Herbal Roots for animal drugs production, and we can get this Herbal Roots only in India.

Upon your positive response towards this business proposal i will give you guidelines on how you can handle this supply by yourself and make supply to my boss directly as soon as he arrive to India to purchase the product.

Please note that i don't want to give the contact information of the local producer of this product in India to my boss,because this is something i want us to use as a business,while you will be buying from the local producer and make supply to my boss as the direct producer of the herbal roots.

The local dealer is selling the herbal roots at the rate of US$250 per sachet,but you will tell my boss that you will supply to him at the rate of US$400 per sachet,because the previous supplier from Pakistan supplies to our company at the rate of US$500 per sachet,but due to terrorist acts happening in Pakistan everyday and high increment of the product from the Pakistan supplier our boss want to use his hand and source for the product in India,because he believe that he can get it in India as the previous supplier told him that they purchase the herbal roots from India and preserve it to pharmaceutical production quality.

Remember you and I will share the net profit that you would make from the supply after and also my boss is buying with cash on this first business,because he wants to meet any reliable producer of the herbal roots officially to enable him be satisfy to order in bulk on next transaction.

If you are interested I will forward the full guideline and contact of my boss to you, so that you can contact him for more discussion regarding the business and I will still give you the contact of the local dealer in India. You can contact me through my private e-mail: calypsoagatha@rocketmail.com or call me on my number bellow.

I wait for your reply.

Thanks,
Agatha Calypso
+2348188184406

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