419 scam: Shantal Fillidori <mensahkosi100@gmail.com> Dear good Friend

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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:
- "million united states dollars" (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)
- "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)
- "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a orphan 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.
- shantalfillidori@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Shantal Fillidori <mensahkosi100@gmail.com>
Reply-To: shantalfillidori@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:31:50 +0100
Subject: Dear good Friend

Greetings from Shantal Fillidori,

With all due respect, I want you to read my letter with one mind and
help me. I am Shantal Fillidori The only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs.
D. Fillidori, My Late father was a very wealthy cocoa dealer in Lome
Togo before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one
of their outing to discuss on a business deal.

When my mother died when she was given birth to me, my father took me
so special because I am motherless. Before the death of my late father
on 22nd June 2012 in a private hospital here in Lome Togo. He secretly
called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of USD6,
000,000.00 Six million United States dollars left in a suspense
account in a local bank here in Lome Togo, that he used my name as his
only daughter for the next of kin in deposit of the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was
poisoned by his business associates that I should seek for a foreign
partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and
use it for investment purpose, such real estate agent,
I am 17year old. Dear I am honorably seeking your assistance in the
following ways.

1) To provide any bank account where this money would be transferred into.

2) To serve as the guardian of this fund.

3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further
my education and to secure a residential permit for me in your
country.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 35 percent of the total sum as
compensation for your effort input after the successful transfer of
this fund to your nominated account overseas.
I want you to help me not because of the 35 percent I want to offer
you but to take me as your adoptive child and take good care of my
life. Please save my life.

Hope to hear from you immediately for more details for you to receive
the money so that I can be coming to your country immediately after
you have receive the money so that I can continue my education while
this money will be invested by you.

Here is my private email Address(shantalfillidori@gmail.com
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regard,
Shantal Fillidori

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