419 scam: Harris Harrison <contecamelias@gmail.com> Hello!

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Harris Harrison <contecamelias@gmail.com>
Reply-To: harrish0@gmx.fr
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 06:46:38 +0000
Subject: Hello!

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Hello!

My greetings to you, how are you my Dear?

I have contacted you earlier and no response from you?

Once again, My name is Mr. Harris Harrison. The Director Internal
Audit, EIB Bank Paris France.

I have a good business opportunity for you, which I know will benefit
both of us financially. I have been in banking for 37 years and soon I
will be going for my retirement permanently. I have a fixed deposit
account in my bank, which I opened by myself since 2005, no one know
of this secret deposit in my bank except me knew. I am the only person
who is aware and my bank did not know of it, this money belongs to me.
And nobody have ever know or operate on this account value of: Five
million five hundred thousand European Euros,(â‚¬5.500, 000.00), is
still lying in my bank.

I have discovered that if I go retirement without remitting this money
out urgently from my bank. It will be forfeited to the government
treasury account as unclaimed funds, which I don't want.

Please, I want you to help me to provide an account from your country
were to receive this money into and we share it 50%/50% percentages.
All I require from you is your trustworthy and honest co-operation,
confidentiality trust to keep this transfer secret to enable us to
accomplish it.

I await your immediate response in this matter to enable us proceed.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Harris Harrison.

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