419 scam: Pierre Frank Laporte <mr.terrydickson@gmail.com> Attention Dear Beneficiary Your winning Fund is Ready

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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:
- "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)
- "million 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)
- "million 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)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: Pierre Frank Laporte <mr.terrydickson@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pierrefrank.laporte23@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:59:12 -0700
Subject: Attention Dear Beneficiary Your winning Fund is Ready

>From Desk of the Country Director for CÃ´te d'Ivoire,
Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo
Pierre Frank Laporte
World Bank Group,
Website: http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/p/pierre-frank-laporte2

Attention: Beneficiary,

Subject: PAYMENT APPROVAL FROM WORLD BANK GROUP.

I am Dr. Pierre F. Laporte ,the Country regional director World Bank Group.
Therefore, you are legally and highly notified with every absolute
authorization on your winning funds and transaction long awaited release

Following our banks audit meeting which is been held annually, Your name
and address were selected out of the Thousands of e-mails that was gathered
from all over the world to contest for this cash prize award. It is very
obvious that you have been confirmed a winner of this World Bank Group Cash
Prize Award of the year 2020 with a cash sum of (US$3,000000) - (THREE
MILLION DOLLARS ONLY)

In a nut shell, the concerned are ,
Funds Inheritance of Lottery Winning due to unauthorized/incapability
of financial Institutions/security companies In releasing such huge
sum of money due to Fraud, terrorist and money Laundry activities
going on in the world wide.

This financial institute known as World Bank Group has Mandated the
Bank of America Online funds remittance department to release the long
awaited funds of $3,000.000,00 (3Million United States Dollars) with
interest accrue to beneficiaries

through direct TELEGRAPHIC WIRE TRANSFER .Upon the provision of your
Banking account details for your express funds transfer into your nominated
account without any delay with every obedience to our instruction and in
line to your funds release with immediate action.

Hence your funds have cleared from Terrorist and Money laundry
activities and your money will be released into your provided Banking
account through Bank of America

As regards to this arrangement You are advised to contact with your
banking details

Your full names:
Country:
Address:
Phone number:
Occupation
Your bank details

You are therefore advised to forward your direct telephone numbers
Your complete name and your complete Banking details most importantly be
aware that THREE Million UNITED STATES DOLLORS ONLY (US3, 000, 000.00) is
due to you.
Finally , Without any delay.

You are to contact quickly and express to us irrespective of the
time as we are waiting for your attention regarding your funds and it's
transfer interest into your provided account.

Thanks for Your Cooperation.

Dr. Frank LaPorte
Country director
World Bank group.

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