419 scam: "DR. CHRISTOPHER"<info@mail.com> A CALL TO SERVE

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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.
- christo.colon2@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. CHRISTOPHER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <christo.colon2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 19:30:00 -0000
Subject: A CALL TO SERVE

United Nations Humanitarian Service
From the Desk of
Dr. Christopher Colon
Liberia.

3rd January 2015.

Dear Friend,

I am among the team of doctors deployed by the United nations humanitarian service to combat the on going Ebola epidemic virus depleting the west Africans.

The virus have caused a total of 33,000,000.00 in the United States currency to the GDP of the gold and mining operation since it's discovery in Liberia.

I decided to take up this call of service to humanity because I lost my wife to cancer in 2012 and I have decided to dedicate my life to the saving of lives.

I have a prominent patient by the name of Chief Collins Freeman a gold and diamond merchant mining in the rural areas of Liberia, he has contacted the virus and is currently undergoing the experimental treatment provided by the U.S research board.

He has confided in me about his fortune valued at 10,750,000 in the United states currency and 40 KG of Gold Dustwhich he has deposited with a safe house in Accra Ghana. He has requested a foreign partner who can assist him receive the fund and Gold and use in the purchase of the drugs for the treatment of the Ebola Virus.

As a doctor, I cannot leave my assigned duty to pursue the fund because there are alot of patients that needs my attention in this rural area and it will be against my professional ethics.

Hence, I decided to contact you to act as the receiving beneficiary of the package, he has agreed to give us 40% of the fund and you will use the 60% in the purchase of the drugs and send to Liberia.

There is urgency needed in your response because the virus has eaten deeply into Chief Collins Freeman and his chances of surviving is very slim. The virus has killed the rest of his family and there is no next of kin left to inherit the fund and that is why chief Freeman wants to volunteer the fund for the saving of other lives.

It is our duty call as humans to serve humanity and your part in this transaction will go down the history of mankind as one of the saviour of lives in Liberia.

I anticipate your earnest response.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Christopher Colon
christo.colon2@gmail.com

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