419 scam: Confidential <stevel05@mail.com> QUICK RESPOND!!!

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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:
- "hundred thousand united states 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)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "offshore account" (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.
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.
- stevelance89@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Confidential <stevel05@mail.com>
Reply-To: stevelance89@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:21:56 -0500
Subject: QUICK RESPOND!!!

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Dear, Sir/ Madam

Good day and compliments to you, I know this letter will definitely come
to
you as a surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it
carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine
my
future and continued existence. Please allow me to introduce myself. I
am
CAPTAIN, STEVE LANCE, in 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment unit here
that Patrols in the Deir ez-Zor province,Syria. I am desperately in need
of
assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you.

I am presently in Syria and I found your contact particulars in an
address
journal. I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $2.7M (Two
Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to you, as far as
I
can be assured that it will be safe in your care until I complete my
service here. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved.

SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in US DOLLARS was discovered and concealed in barrels at a
location in Deir ez-Zor province when we conducted a foot patrol and it
was
agreed by all party present that the money be shared among us. This
might
appear as an illegal thing to do but I tell you what? No compensation
can
make up for the risks we have taken with our lives in this hellhole. The
above figure was given to me as my share but to conceal this kind of
huge
sum becomes a problem for me, so with the help of a Canadian contact
working with the Unicef organization here (his office enjoys some
immunity)
I was able to get the package out to a safe location and now succeeded
in
depositing the fund into the Unicef offshore account.

He does not know the real contents of the package as he believes that it
belongs to an American who died in an air raid, who before giving up
trusted me to hand over the package to his close relative. I have now
found
an easier and secured means of getting the fund out through the Unicef
offshore funding bank account with this link the fund will be lifted out
of
Syria to a safe designated bank account of my choice. I do not know how
long I will remain here, as I have been lucky to survive 2 suicide bomb
attacks by Pure Divine intervention. This and other reasons put into
consideration have prompted me to reach out for help. If it might be of
interest to you then Endeavour to contact me immediately and we would
work
out the necessary formalities but I pray that you are discreet about
this
mutually benefiting relationship and assistance which was urgent needed.

Please reply to: stevelance89@gmail.com.

Respectfully,
Captain, Steve Lance,
United States Soldier:Syria

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