419 scam: "Mr Hacer Kovlak"<samwillams98@yahoo.fr> Contact My Secretary

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- markingsen5@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Hacer Kovlak" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <markingsen5@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:46:55 +0200
Subject: Contact My Secretary

Hello Dear Good Friend,

I am Mr Hacer Kovlak who contacted you before about transferring those funds, now i am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that funds transferred, which you try allot but later you started having biased mind, I want to let you know that its good to do good, I’m in China now with my own share of the total fund.

Now Kindly contact my secretary on the information Name Mr. Mark Donald Email :(markingsen5@gmail.com ) in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Ask him to send you the total sum of ($850,000.00) Eight hundred and fifthly dollars in ATM CARD, which I kept for your compensation. Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information;

Your full name________________________
Your address__________________________
Your country__________________________
Your age______________________________
Your occupation_______________________
Your Phone number_____________________

Note that if you did not send him the above information complete he will not release the ATM CARD to you because he has to be sure that it is you. Ask him to send you your ATM CARD.

Remain blessed,
Mr Hacer Kovlak

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