419 scam: "Philip Strapton"<anandhardware@vsnl.net> Lets work togather if agreed on this.

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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: "Philip Strapton" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <straptonphilip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:53:44 +0100
Subject: Lets work togather if agreed on this.

Good Day,
Going through dossiers of personalities and properties in your Country, I discretely selected you; I am a Philip Said
Strapton, senior Insurance Broker with one of the famous oil and gas insurance company in United Kingdom. I have been
mandated by our claim department to avail the contact of the next of kin or relative of our late client who died of heart
attack as a result of the natural disaster in Japan that claimed his two vessels. He died without any registered next of kin
as he was long divorced and had no child; I was his insurance broker and have in my possession all the documents required to
present you as his beneficiary next of kin.
I contacted you because you have same name identity with our late client and can perfectly fit in as his next of kin, We can
work together to claim this fund. Please listen, this is real and goes on in insurance firms all over the world without
people knowing it. I am looking for is a trusted foreign partner that I can entrust the indemnity fund in his care for the
purpose of future investment in low tax areas that can yield optimum returns to my capital while I resign my position.
Express your interest, Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret within you and I need your reply.
Best regards,
Philip Said Strapton

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