419 scam: "Paul C." <paulcartt101@gmail.com> (no subject)

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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:
- "i got your email address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Paul C." <paulcartt101@gmail.com>
Reply-To: paulcart101@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:23:47 +0100
Subject:

Greetings to you,

My name is Capt. Paul, and I got your email address from online email
database Directory. I am contacting you based on my personal interest to
develop a mutual business relationship with you in your country.

l have a mutual beneficial business transaction valued at the tune of
$20,000.000.00 which l will like to introduce to you and this will be a
joint venture investment there in your country.

In View of this foregoing issue, l will like to receive your response for
me to release the details and nature of this transaction, your phone
number will be most important to me for an oral discussion on this issue.
Please in case you are not interested, do inform me quickly so that l will
solicit for another business partner on this regards.

Please due to fact that I am still in active service with my firm I must
use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to
keep this matter extraordinary confidential, whatever your decision, while
I await your prompt response.

Best Regards,
Capt. Paul.

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