419 scam: FRANK BROWN <officeunit89@gmail.com> Dear Friend, Please Manage it for your passed Efforts

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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 "New Partner from Paraguay" 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.
- mavelsloka@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: FRANK BROWN <officeunit89@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mavelsloka@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 06:47:22 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend, Please Manage it for your passed Efforts

Good day
I am Mr Paul Wilson ,I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting
out my contract fund $70.5 Million from Nigeria National Petroleum
Cooperation (NNPC) Finally I have been paid and have tried calling your
telephone but wasn't going through, and i decided to email you if it get to
you because my last email has not been replied I will be so glad.
The fund was transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from
Dubai, i am Presently in Dubai for investment projects with my own share of
the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to
assist in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my bank account officer in Nigeria, Her name is Mr Mavel Sloka
and his email address is (mavelsloka@gmail.com) ask he to send you the
total $800,000 dollars which I kept with him, this is for your compensation
for all the past efforts and the money you spent to assist me in getting
the fund out.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get in
touched with my bank account officer and instruct him how to send you The
INTERNATIONAL BANK DRAFT . Please do let me know immediately you receive
the fund, so that we can share the joy together.

In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which
me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had
forwarded instruction to my bank account officer on your behalf, so feel
free to get in touch with him and he will send the fund to you without any
delay.
Kindly, reconfirm your details to him.
1. Full name:
2. Telephone Number:
3. Address:
4. A Copy of Your ID

Regards,
Mr Paul Wilson

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