419 scam: Noble Abbott <abbottn20@gmail.com> Greetings from Mr Noble

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Noble Abbott <abbottn20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Noble Abbott <abbttnb20@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:51:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Greetings from Mr Noble

Â Greetings to you and your family.
My name is Mr. Noble Abbott, the director general with the bank, Africa Develop bank (ADB) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in West Africa. I am contacting you to seek our honesty and sincere cooperation in confidential manner to transfer the sum of 10.5 (Ten million five hundred thousand Dollars) to your existing or new bank account.

This money belongs to one of our bank client, a Libyan oil exporter who was working with the former Libyan government; I learn t that he was killed by the revolutionary forces since October 2011. Our bank is planning to transfer this entire fund into the government public treasury as unclaimed fund if nobody comes to claim the money from our bank after four years without account activities.

We did not know each other before, but due to the fact that the deceased is a foreigner, the bank will welcome any claim from a foreigner without any suspect, that is why I decided to look for someone whim I can trust to come and claim the fund from our bank.

I will endorse your name in the deceased client file here in my office which will indicate to that the deceased is your legal joint account business partner or family member next of kin to the deceased and officially the bank will transfer the fund to your bank account within seven working days in accordance to our banking inheritance rules and fund claim regulation.

I will share 40% for you and 60% for me after the fund is transferred to your bank account, we need to act fast to complete this transaction within seven days. I will come to your country to collect my share after the fund is transferred to your bank account in your country. I hope that you will not disappoint me after the fund is transferred to your bank account in your country.

Please I want you to send me your private phone number so that I can call you to discuss more details on how we can proceed on this project

Waiting for your urgent response today
Yours sincerely

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