419 scam: "Mr. John Camacio" <office5@offtax10.ml> Sincere Partnership.

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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:
- "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)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- johncamacio@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. John Camacio" <office5@offtax10.ml>
Reply-To: <sirjcamacio@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 02:22:35 -0700
Subject: Sincere Partnership.

Good day,

Sir,

I apologize since we do not know each other before now this vital letter to you. I am Mr. John Camacio, I work with International Stanrdard Bank Ltd. I am contacting you having gone through exhaustive search about a certain businessman, who happens to be a citizen of your country, The customer reside here in Ghana before his death. He operated a saving account with my branch with a sum of $16,300,000.00 left over in his deposit and the account is valued at ($16,300,000.00)

I have been mandated by the authority of the bank as his personal account manager to help provide his relative who will inherit the deposit on his behalf, but to no avail. I tried for many years now without success.

I had resorted to different means of getting at any relation or possible next of kin for my client but having not found any person that matched my search criteria and I am supposed to report back to the bank for records of the account to be liquidated as I have found no one. After given this several thoughts, decide within my heart to contact you so that both of us will partner together to repartriate the deposited funds into a safe account you may provide. I now have plans to present you to this bank as the legal next of kin to this late bank customer since you share the same country of origin and last name with my client.

This transaction is of a high trust and honesty between you and me. I need you to have a good reason to trust me back as I do having not known you in person before this. It is a life changing opportunity to both us and I would appreciate your kind response back to my private email address as stated here (johncamacio@gmail.com) for our urgent discussion.

I am giving you 100% assurance of our success and the legality of the entire process. And if you follow all my instructions we will finish with the entire procedures within 10 working days and this money smoothly transferred into your account. We will share this money in the ratio of 50/50 no greed since the money does not belong to any of us. I made this generous decision so that we will be happy to cooperate in partnership for success. This money will be legally paid out to you so you have nothing to worry about and no one will ever know about this as long as you keep this letter to yourself alone. I will expect your reply mail through the above email address as soon as you can.

Best Regards,
Mr. John Camacio.

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