419 scam: Robert Robertphillip <infoo234@plesscxbbb.jp.tn> Can you be trusted

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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:
- "good day friend" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "hundred thousand 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)
- "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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- robertphillip222@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Robert Robertphillip <infoo234@plesscxbbb.jp.tn>
Reply-To: <robertphillip222@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:39:45 +0100
Subject: Can you be trusted

Good Day Friend,

With all due respect to your person, as we have not met in anywhere before, please permit me in drawing your attention to this proposal. Despite the fact that we have not met or done anything before, I want to assure you that this proposal will definitely benefit both of us. So I pray that you give this proposal good attention.

I am Mr.Robert phillip, A senior officer with Barclays Capital Plc, I have been with the bank for 16 years now and I am the account manager to Late E. Blundell, who died with his children in Lebanon during the Isreali and Hizbollah war. he has a total deposit of $14.6million (Fourteen Million Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) before his untimely demise with his family.

Since the death of Blundell and his family, his account has been dormant without no next of kin as his wife and child whom he named the next of kin are both dead alongside with him and no one else will ever come for the fund. Therefore, I contact you this day to give me your full trust and sincerity so that this fund will be beneficial to both of us.

The interesting development here is that you are not at any risk whatsoever because I have worked out all the arrangements and have successfully withdrawn the whole funds with my official capacity and it's now packaged in cash and kept at the secured private storage place and what is left to do is give you details of the storage and you open contact with them and claim the fund's packages, I informed the storage management that I am safe-keeping for a foreign friend, but didn't disclose any name and you must understand that I didn't store the packages on my name for security reasons, so they won't be any traces whatsoever.

I am assuring you that you shall not be subjected to any form of risk,it is 100% free deal all that is important now is the true and exact understanding, this deal shall remain a top secret between me and you for the sake of my job and reputation. so do not betray me after taking possession of the funds, we shall discuss the sharing formula when you get back to me.

I hope to further strengthen my business relationship with you after the execution of this transaction. Regardless of the fact that we have not done business before, I strongly believe that for the sake of God, you will exhibit a trust worthy character when you receive the fund.

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.
Yours truly,
MY CONTACT EMAIL:robertphillip222@gmail.comâ€¦
Mr.Robert Phillip.

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