419 scam: "From Rev" <ours@mail.optusnet.com.au> Greeting

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "foreign remittance department" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "From Rev" <ours@mail.optusnet.com.au>
Reply-To: gn449430@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:44:38 -0700
Subject: Greeting

Dear Friend,

I contacted you because of your last Name due to my search, Please
Read The Following Information Carefully, I am an officer in fidelity
investments corporate office in Foreign Remittance Department, where
I manage private clientâ€™s accounts as a Director for Credit
&Marketing. I handle most of our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and
secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per
annum on each of the Investor's Capital Funds.

As an expert, I have made US$21.6 million over time from Investor's
EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who would be willing to
stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Tenure Investment
Proceeds in his or her account. Brief history of funds: I have
morethan 98 Corporate Investors attached to my portfolio whose Capital
Investment Funds are being managed and administered by me. This
Capital Investment Funds is been used for trading in Stock Market.

However, I cannot claim these funds without presenting someone to
stand as an Investor to claim these funds otherwise our establishment
will convert the funds into the bank's treasury at the end of second
quarter and this is where you come in. This is a fair deal without any
risk attached either on your part or on my part. Since I have
exclusive access to every file and with my proximity, I can put you in
as an Investor to my Bank and attached the profit fund to your
portfolio in order to speedily facilitate the remittance of the funds
out of my Bank. I already have a master plan to see this project
through without hitches.

Please if you are interested to partner with me in this project, I
demand you to get back to me so I can provide you with further details
and the best way to complete the project.

Sincerely,
Rev John Larry

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