419 scam: mike david <mikedavid446@yahoo.pt> AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK BENIN !!!!! REPLY...

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- mikedavid740@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mike david <mikedavid446@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: mike david <mikedavid740@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 23:14:00 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK BENIN !!!!! REPLY...

Greetings! After much consideration on this matter, I have decided to contact you believing that you will protect thistransaction and give it the attention it deserves. I am pleased to be in contact with you. I am a senior managementstaff of a regional bank here in Benin Republic. I wonder if we can work together in collaboration. I would like tocollaborate with me by sending correspondence support to our office as a beneficiary to a deceased customer in thisbank that made ??a huge sum fixed deposit in the United States (USA) dollars to our bank, a complete and precisedirectives given internally in our office for a successful claim of this deposit, the deceased is in your region, diedwithout family designate in your account profile in our office registered and as such, funds now have an openbeneficiary mandate, for anyone needs the deceased as written in their own data with our office, which I will makeavailable on request information. Honestly, I look to the association for us to claim this money successfully. I willprofessionally guide, but secretly the information you require our bank in a more discreet manner, so that the demandfor this fund for our pocket. It may interest you to know that all aspects of security in this operation has beenmeticulously care Please if you are interested, let me know what I can give you details on the steps to maximize thisgreat opportunity to secure our economic future. I'll be waiting for your favorable reply to be honest my privateemail address (mikedavid740@gmail.com)Mike David

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