419 scam: "Mr.John Ade"<admin@anteym.ru> Hello, Pls confirm receipt.

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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 company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.
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.
- calsonoilcorp@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.John Ade" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <calsonoilcorp@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 11:34:34 -0700
Subject: Hello, Pls confirm receipt.

Hello,

Pls confirm receipt.

My name is Mr.John Ade , a Director with Calson oil and Agricultural Chemicals,I live and work here in Benin Republic West Africa,

Actually We need a representative who can be working for the company as a payment receiving agent. We make lots of supplies to some of our customers in the USA ,for which I do come to USA to receive payment and have it cashed after I supply them materials Due our Country been a small economy plus Financial regulatory stress, we like to receive our money and exchange through agents than to come direct to our Local bank through our Country's central bank,hence soliciting for a collaboration with you and It’s always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive such payment cash twice in a month so I therefore decided to contact you.

We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment receive and cleared by you from our clients who makes payment through you. Please note ,We will prefare a Company so as to be sure that we are dealing with a Company than individual.

Kindly get back to me as soon as possible if you are interested in this offer.

As soon as I hear from you I will explain further.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.John Ade
E-mail : calsonoilcorp@gmail.com

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