419 scam: "Mr. Adams mahjid" <honnanab@gmail.com> I kept the total sum of $750,000.00 For Your Compensation.

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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:
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- asgadi85@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Adams mahjid" <honnanab@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrspmarti@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:30:04 +0200
Subject: I kept the total sum of $750,000.00 For Your Compensation.

I hope you are fine over there in your country. I have waited to hear from
you about the transaction business but did not hear anything from you again
maybe you are too busy. Now I am in South Korea with my new partner who
helped me finalized everything about the transaction. But I did not forget
you as I have contacted you first, despised you did not reply me when I
sent you the last letter regarding the transaction.

Therefore I kept the total sum of $750,000.00. (seven hundred and fifty
thousand United State Dollars) for your compensation under care of Miss.
Rihanata Kab, email (asgadi85@gmail.com) therefore contact Miss. Rihanata
Kab, immediately via her email address so that she will direct you how to
receive the funds.

Feel free to contact her, for I have given her instruction on how to send
the funds to you as soon as you contact her; please give some part of these
funds to the motherless babies and widowers in your country.

N: B Note that I will not be checking my email because I am too busy here
now in South Korea with the man who stands as my trustee, I have instructed
my secretary to direct you how to receive the funds.

Best Regards,
Mr. Adams mahjid.

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