419 scam: Robert Ekaireb <sgt.pyrossstehane@gmail.com> I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

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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:
- "million pounds" (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)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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.
- ekairebrobert@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Robert Ekaireb <sgt.pyrossstehane@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ekairebrobert@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:26:25 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

Dear,

It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance, this proposal is real and I
want you to consider it very important and I am assuring you that it is not
a dubious mail.

I am Robert Ekaireb, whom has been sentenced to life imprisonment without
parole for the alleged murder of my wife. Please kindly go through the link
below and see some more information.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-25452276

I am filing suit to get myself released but for now am still in prison for
a crime i did not commit.

I want you to remain honest to me till the end of this important business
trusting in you and believing in God that you will not disappoint me at the
end.

I am from United Kingdom an Industrialist / businessman who have been
sentenced wrongly to life imprisonment, since August 2006. Until now no
other person(s) knows about this account or could give any documentary
evidence concerning this account except me. Meanwhile the total amount
involved is sixty five million pounds (?65m only.) and has been kept in
Euro clear for safe keeping nobody has information to this apart from me.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local account here in the UK, without valid international
foreign "Agreement", but could only be approved to any foreigner with valid
international documents.

I would like both of us to build confidence and trust to sign an agreement
that will build us together before transferring the money to any account of
your choice where the fund will be kept safe for safe keeping.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 50% of the total
amount, 50% will be for me. This business is 100% risk free, be rest
assured that this deal is legal If you need any further information let me
know.

I look forward to your earliest reply: ekairebrobert@gmail.com

Best regards.
Robert Ekaireb
E-mail: ekairebrobert@gmail.com

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