419 scam: "Mr. Sinclair Robinson"<robenson.sinclair1@gmail.com> Confirm If Interested

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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: "Mr. Sinclair Robinson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sinclair.robenson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:08:03 -0800
Subject: Confirm If Interested

Greetings,

I am, Mr. Sinclair Robinson, General Manager at one of the bank here in Switzerland. I am contacting you due to your last family name, One of our customer died Nine Year ago and he answer the same last name as yours, He has eight M United States Dollars In our Bank before he died, Since then no beneficiary has fort to claim the funds.

The bank has notify me as General Manager to contact the family or the funds in the account will be frozen, During my research i found out that he is the only son and his old parents has passed away long time ago, Now I need you to work with me so that I’ll present you to the bank as true beneficiary, Since you bear the same family name, So that the fund in the account can be paid to you. Then I and you will share it equally.

The beauty of the whole thing is that your last name is same to our late customer and with this, it will be very easy for us to actualize this without much hassles. This process would only take 7 working days to conclude, Please confirm your interest immediately to empower me provide you all the needed documents and direct you on how to contact our bank for the claim and payment.

Regards

Mr. Sinclair Robinson,

General Manager

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