419 scam: Mrs Mimi Philip <mrsmimiphilip001@gmail.com> PLEASE REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge amount 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 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)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Mimi Philip <mrsmimiphilip001@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsmimiphilip123@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:37:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY.

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I AM MRS
MIMI PHILIP
BILL AND
EXCHANGE MANAGER.
BANK OF AFRICA
(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU ,
BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend.

CONFIDENTIAL

I will like you
to help me, in receiving of this fund into your Bank Account .However, it's just
my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this
transaction. I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
Department of BANK OF Africa (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso . In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$27.2 Million dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign Customer (MR. PAUL LOUIS from Paris ,
France ) who died along with His entire family in July 2003 in a plane crash.

I am afraid if
this money stays in our bank without claim for long period of time, our
government will step in becaus
the Banking
laws here does not allow such huge amount of money to stay
dormant for
more than 8years. and you will be receiving this money into your Bank
account within 10 or 14 banking days.

The Banking law
and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Eight
years an above, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and while 70%would be
for me.

If you agree
to my business proposal, further details of the transfer will be forwarded to
you as soon as I receive your return mail.Make sure you keep this transaction as
your top secret and make it confidential till we receive the fund into the
account that you will provide to the Bank. Don't disclose it to any body,
because the secrecy of this transaction is as well as the success of it, have a
great day.

Place contact
me immediately
Yours
faithfully.
Mrs Mimi
Philip

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