419 scam: "Davidson Ocampbell"<davidsoncampbell001@yahoo.com> For you

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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)
- "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)
This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
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.
- tonywat2010@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Davidson Ocampbell" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidocampbell2015@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:11:48 +0100
Subject: For you

Dear friend,

Due to my tight schedules I could not contact you earlier before now.Though I did not disclose my real name during the time I contacted you for the fund transaction but now that I have succeeded in
transfering the money I have decided to give you my real name here.The business later became successful with the cooperation of a new partner from India. Presently I'm in New Delhi, India with the partner for investment projects.

Meanwhile,I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in that fund transfer despite that it failed us at that time.Now, I want you to contact this clergy,his name is Mr.Anthony Watson and his email address is tonywat2010@gmail.com ask him to send you the total sum of $1 000,000.00 which I kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in that matter.I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with Mr.Anthony Watson and instruct him where to send the ATM card to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it from him to forward you the pin code, so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. At the moment,I am very busy here because of the projects which I and the new partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to him on your behalf to receive that ATM card, so feel free to get in touch with him and he will send the card to you without any
delay.

NOTE HIS EMAIL AGAIN, tonywat2010@gmail.com

Best regards,

Mr Davidson Ocampbell

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