419 scam: Mr Obilo Ogo <kingnanawills03@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:

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.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Obilo Ogo <kingnanawills03@gmail.com>
Reply-To: obiloogo@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 05:33:56 -0700
Subject: Greetings

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Greetings

Your good name and address have been recommended to us as an authorized
manufactures/exporters of various items from your country. To introduce our
selves to you, we are agent/consultants, wholesaler distributors,
manufacturers, representative of merchandise.

Presently we are actively engaged in sourcing of the under listed items for
an urgent contract supply to the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION(ADC)and we
have been in this line of business for many successful years satisfying our
numerous customers and government with all their needs. Our recent
expansion and desire to promote trade and industry in your country has
afforded us the opportunity to contact your esteem company for an urgent
contract supply of the under listed items to the ADC.

Renewal of Medical Equipments, Furniture's,Tiles, Building Materials,
Pharmaceutical Products, T-Shirts / Polo,Electronics/electrical
equipments,Cameras,Fax Machines, Industrial Machines, Sanitary Wares,Auto
mobile parts from your country.

Please if you can supply us with any of the above listed items, do not
hesitate to inform us by mail so
that we can stop further negotiations with other foreign companies for an
urgent supply of the
captioned items.

Looking forward hearing from you.
Best regards,

Mr Obilo Ogo (Agent)

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