419 scam: "Esther Ward"<customercare631@gmail.com> Dear Valued Customer

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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: "Esther Ward" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cccenter19@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 05:26:00 -0400
Subject: Dear Valued Customer

Meezan Bank Transnational Inc.,
pan-African banking conglomerate,
with banking operations in 33 African countries.
EBI SA Representative Office. 2nd Floor, 20 Old Broad Street London EC2N
1DP,
United Kingdom
CEO: Thierry Tanoh
Founded: 1985

Dear Valued Customer!!!

Your Funds has Be Transfer To Your Account since Monday the 10/8/2015
Without Any Upfront Fees.

All the transfer fees have been deducted from your total fund of $2.8M.
Therefore, you are not going to pay even a penny again, this was done
before it failed, check if the funds has finally reflected into your
account.

Click this link and fill out your banking details to enable us commence
with your transfer immediately,

http://www.herakles.org/forum/files/fytg/file2/file.1.html

Thanks for banking with Eco Bank while we looking forward to serving you
with the best of our service.
Thanks and God bless you.

Yours in Service,
Esther Ward,
Meezan Bank:
CEO Meezan Bank Limited

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam