419 scam: "SAWYER STANLEY"<sawyerstanli@gmail.com> GREETINGS!!!

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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:
- "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
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.
- saw.sss53@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SAWYER STANLEY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stansssaw@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 17:10:03 -0700
Subject: GREETINGS!!!

Greetings,

I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for mutual benefit of both our families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of (US$65.540M) to your bank account plus 370 kilos of gold deposit within 10 or 14 banking days.

The money and was deposited by a deceased customer who died including his family and his supposed next of kin in earthquake disaster since 2008. Hence I need your assistance to claim the funds.

The money and the gold deposit has been dormant for years without claim and there are possibilities for my bank to confiscate the account if there is no claims hence, I want the bank to release the fortune to you as the located next of kin.

I am in the position to the payment to you as inherited funds with release of the gold deposit to you too and I will join you in your country for sharing and investments...

You are strictly to only respond through my alternative email: saw.sss53@gmail.com if you want to co-operate in order to inform you all that may need to know but I would like this proposal as a top secret or delete it if you are not interested.

Regards,

Mr. Sawyer Stanley

saw.sss53@gmail.com

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