419 scam: "Mr.Philip Hammond"<investdgrad@gmail.com> Agreement on Trust

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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:
- ",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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Philip Hammond" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mfphiliphammond@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:44:49 -0600
Subject: Agreement on Trust

Head of International Operations
Finance House (USA)
Address: 303 Peachtreet St, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 USA.

Attn: friend.

We are contacting you this time to notify you that your representative (Mr.Donald) from london, in our office this morning and advised us to transferyour approved fund valued $20,000,000:00 dollars into his own personal bank account information below.

To be very honest, the stand on which we have gone through on this is not encouraging , to me, you must receive your fund before those that did not work for it will have access to it.

I discussed with the National Credit Union Bank London-UK. bank manager and he assured that you will receive your fund via online option as much as you are willingly ready to receive your fund...this will cost you nothing to do because I see no reason why one should pay to receive what belongs to him or her.

To proceed with this, kindly advise by providing the below information and I will submit it to the bank for the release of your fund:

Full Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Address:
Contact Phone Number:

These are what we need as to proceed with your fund release.

Thank you.

Philip Hammond

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