419 scam: ''Robert Nelson'' <robertnelson@gmail.com> urgent 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.
- internationalfundsta12@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ''Robert Nelson'' <robertnelson@gmail.com>
Reply-To: internationalfundsta12@gmail.com
Date: 18 Jul 2016 16:21:42 +0800
Subject: urgent reply

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INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT
UNITED NATIONS
(World Bank Assisted Programmed)
Directorate of International Payment and Transfers
UN Plaza, DC2-2060, New York,

Attention: Beneficiary,

My Name is Mr Robert Nelson, I'm the vice chairman of the united
nations/ international monetary fund investigating unit, we
arrived
into Nigeria on 12th January 2015, Following series of
Complaints,by
Beneficiaries who are yet to receive their outstanding
Contract/Inheritance/lottery Funds, from the central bank and
other
commercial banks in Nigeria The International monitory fund
investigating Unit discovered particularly in your own case that
some
Corrupt bank/ Government Officials had the intention of diverting
your
Funds to their own private Accounts abroad.

The Team that carried out the investigation recovered some
Payment
Files which have since been approved for payment which yours was
inclusive, secondly, in the same file of yours, there is a letter
here
stating that you are dead, so based on this, we are contacting
you to
verify the true position of your status, and you have only
48hours to
reply this mail or we will work with what we saw in your file
that you
are dead, and i will personally append my signature to push your
fund
into the Nigerians government treasury account as an unclaimed
fund.

Note that the United Nations special payment unit has authorized
us to handle your Payment File and based on our recommendation,
your
Outstanding fund have been credited in our Paying Bank Escrow
Account
in your Favor pending your reconfirmation to this office of your
true
position in this matter.

You are hereby advised to reply this mail immediately to confirm
whether or not you actually wrote that Letter forfeiting your
Funds
otherwise you should indicate your interest in receiving your
fund.

(1) Full Name
(2) Residential Address
(3) Telephone Number (Mobile Number if any)
(4) Age and Marital Status
(5) Core Job or Occupation
(6) A valid form of identification.
(7) Your Account details.

You are advised to fully co-operate with this Team so that we can
serve you better in this Second Quota payment of this year 2016,
and
we assure you that we must bring to book all these corrupt
officials
of central bank if we found them guilty.

contact our headquarter with this email
address;(internationalfundsta12@gmail.com)

Waiting
Mr Robert Nelson

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