419 scam: "Adv. Calhun Delph Law Firm" <sales@blesyaiia.ga> 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 next of kin 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.
- lawyer.delphcalhun.esq01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Adv. Calhun Delph Law Firm" <sales@blesyaiia.ga>
Reply-To: lawyer.delphcalhun.esq01@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:50:10 -0700
Subject: Urgent Reply

Warm greetings!

I have previously written to you, but it is unfortunate that my emails were not delivered to you; nevertheless, I am sending it to you once again below.

I am Advocate Calhun Delph; and am a legal practitioner and principal attorney working in areas of family court jurisdiction. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my late client, a native of your country whom I aided in making an investment deposit valued at ($ 9,735,000.00) Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Thirty Five Thousand United States Dollars in finance company.

I informed the finance company of his passing on with his family on their way to the nearby country and I was instructed to present any available member of his family or close relative to be paid the funds.

My reason of contacting you into this matter is due to you have the same surname with my late client. And again there is no registered heir in his account file with the finance company.

I want the left fund to be transferred to your custody as his heir, before it gets confiscated by the executive officials of the finance company.

Please kindly get back to me for further details.

Yours faithfully,

Adv. Calhun Delph, ESQ.
E-mail: (lawyer.delphcalhun.esq01@gmail.com)

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