419 scam: JEAN PHILIPS <collinsmarkjohn@gmail.com> Dear Sir

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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:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "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)
- "very confidential" (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.
- mrskathleen2017@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JEAN PHILIPS <collinsmarkjohn@gmail.com>
Reply-To: MRSKATHLEEN2017@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 14:07:08 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir

Attention Sir/Madam,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of it's
swiftness and confidentiality.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr
Collins Mark, a Manager at the Unity Trust bank, Benin Republic. I
came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle a very confidential transaction which involves the
transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum
confidence.

A foreigner, Late ship Captain Steve D. Lawrence ,an oil Merchant
/contractor with the federal Government of Benin Republic ,until his
death Five years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at
the Unity Trust Bank, Benin Republic, and had a closing balance of
US$20.5M (Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his
available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a
discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war
college here in Benin Republic.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Unity Trust Bank to get
in touch with any of late Captain Steve D. Lawrence's next of kin (he
had no known wife and children) that the management under the
influence of our chairman, board of directors, Retired Major General
Joseph Gabba, that an arrangement for the fund to be declared
"UNCLAIMED " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund or an
orphanage Home.

In order to avert this negative development , myself and some of my
trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have
you stand as late Captain Steve D. Lawrence's next of kin so that the
fund,US$20.5M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into your
bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves
to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are
assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 40% of
the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while the rest
50% would be for me and my colleagues for our involvement and we wish
to invest our shares in real estate /oil business in your country.

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of
the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get
to me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most
confidential telephone, contact address and e-mail and national
identification card, so that i can forward to you the relevant details
of this transaction. Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation.

Email me with this Email Address;mrskathleen2017@gmail.com

Regards.

Mr Collins Mark

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