419 scam: "Mr Richard Po"<porichard7@hotmail.com> RE: GOOD NEWS FOR YOU REPLY FAST

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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:
- "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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "you will be entitled to 30%" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Richard Po" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <porichard7@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 05:15:09 -0700
Subject: RE: GOOD NEWS FOR YOU REPLY FAST

Dear Sir,

I am a member of the Government of Cambodia Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority) (CNPA). Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in (CNPA) by my Committee.

This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$200,000,000.00 (Two Hundred Million United States Dollars Only.)

This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC (CNPA) any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.

opelomega52: SHARE: - For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be entitled to 30% of the money,60% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this transfer, both locally and international expenses.

We want to invest our share of this money into a real estate project which you will handle for us in a period of seven years.

Thanks.

Mr. Richard Po

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