419 scam: "Mitchell Stevens" <mitchellstevenm0@financail.org> Good day,

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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.
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.
- mitchellstevenm0@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mitchell Stevens" <mitchellstevenm0@financail.org>
Reply-To: mitchellstevenm0@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:14:27 +0100
Subject: Good day,

Department of Financial Services.
Bureau of Unclaimed Property.
25 North Colonnade
London, United Kingdom.

Good Day,

My Name is Mitchell Stevens and I work with the Department of Financial Services. Bureau of Unclaimed Property. I found out from our record that You have an unclaimed sum of money that was never remitted to you, maybe due to some circumstance you could not Complete your transactions home or abroad, So I took it upon myself to get in touch with you, before it will be Confiscated as you still have the chance to claim yours.

Currently, federal agencies and other organizations collectively hold more than $55 billion in unclaimed cash and benefits, which come from a variety of sources, including abandoned bank accounts and stock holdings, unclaimed life insurance payouts and forgotten pension benefits seizures of third party benefit, legal financial transactions, like lotto winnings, Inheritance claims that was abandon by individuals over skepticism etc.

It was however ascertain that you were supposed to receive a sum of $5.5 million which is still unclaimed till date, kindly email this office for more information on how you can claim your fund:

NAME : Mr Mitchell Stevens
EMAIL: mitchellstevenm0@gmail.com

Regards,
Mitchell Stevens.

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