419 scam: "Martin Robert"<martinrobert@giga.ocn.ne.jp> Get back to me

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (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)
- "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Martin Robert" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <martrobert848@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 13:31:03 -0700
Subject: Get back to me

FROM:Martin Robert
Dearest,
Am Martin Robert , in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance Department of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our a foreign customer(Herve Garboudes) who was an petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Ghana National
Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip. He died with his wife (Christine Garboudes) on board the Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998.
The plane crash was in the news.See links below for more detail informaion:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/
Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor the relation has appeared to claim this money.

We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that if such money remained unclaimed for over a period of fifteen (15) years, it would be transferred into the MERCHANT BANK Treasury as unclaimed fund. Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer
this money into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out this money through another foreign beneficiary
outside the country. We have decided to give you 30% of the total sum. So please, as a matter of urgency send to me your telephone and email for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are interested, reply through this email address only:

Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.
Martin Robert

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