419 scam: Eric Ibe <mranthonymicheal@gmail.com> Attention Dear beneficiary

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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:
- "we advice you" (this email uses bad English)
- "stay blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Eric Ibe <mranthonymicheal@gmail.com>
Reply-To: diplomatagent452@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:21:24 -0700
Subject: Attention Dear beneficiary

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Attention ,

We are very sorry for the late response OK............
How are you yonder happy new year to you and to your family and
friends over there

This is to acknowledged you that we have made all the vital and
necessary arrangement of everything concerning your ATM master card
delivery has been made successfully and well organized!, So you should
be in touch cause we are going to proceed on your delivery ASAP and
note that once the delivery is done, You should go to any DHL corrie
company in your state and have the ATM from their hands cause we are
going to send it to you through DHL office OK,

Therefore, we have received your delivery info which you provided to
us were to deliver your ATM master card of the $10.8USD and that,s for
the compensation funds for been a scam victim and we are warning you
don,t ever try to deal with those fraudsters anymore cause if we find
out that you are still dealing with them, You might be arrested and be
Jailed, be warn....... cause we advice you to know whom ever you
might be contacting tomorrow or next in other not to fall in to their
hands again we are fighting to secure the country for be a great,
better, and to stop and jailed each and all of those fraudsters this
time with members of our FBI investigators to arrest and Jailed
everyone of them OK,

So you have to go to any apple store and send an gift card for the
delivery fee and the delivery fee will cost you sum of $350.00 so
kindly get back to me with the picture of the gift card to proceed on
your delivery ASAP OK.

Best regard
Mr.Robert Tracy the white house agent Washington DC

Stay BLESSED,
look FORWARD HEARING FROM YOU ASAP!.
Kindly get back to us to proceed.

And have a blessed day ahead!!!

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