419 scam: "Mrs.Gloria Chavez." <abubakaraliyumalan@gmail.com> Your Urgent Reply Needed...

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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:
- "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Gloria Chavez." <abubakaraliyumalan@gmail.com>
Reply-To: offlceflll@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:46:45 +0100
Subject: Your Urgent Reply Needed...

(Texas Time GMT)
Attention:Beneficiary.

I am Mrs.Gloria Chavez , Chief Border Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol
Sectors located along the United States southwest border. This Official
Memorandum is to inform you that we discovered that some officials who work
under the United States government have attempted to divert your Funds
through a back-door channel. We actually discovered this today, through our
Special Agents under the Disciplinary Unit of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (USCBP) after we apprehended a suspect.

The mentioned suspect was apprehended at the Rio Grande Valley Border early
this morning, as he attempted to carry the enormous cash of $10,500,000.00
dollars outside the shores of the USA. In respect to the money laundering
decree of the United States, such amounts of money cannot be moved in cash
outside the United States because such an attempt is a criminal offense and
is punishable under the money laundering act of 1982 of the United States
of America. This decree is a globalized law applicable in most developed
countries in order to check-mate terrorism and money laundering.

From our gathered information here in this Unit, we discovered that the
said Funds in question actually belong to you, but it had been purposely
delayed because the officials in charge of your Payment are into some sort
of irregularities which is totally against the ethics of any Payment
institution. Presently, this said Fund is under the custody of Mr. MIKE
MARSHALL Chairman & Chief Executive Prosperity Bank - Carthage
USA,Telephone: (909)245-0275) Email: offlceflll@outlook.com, and I can
assure you that your Funds will be released to you without a hitch provided
that you are sincere to us in this matter. Also, we require your positive
co-operation at every level because we are closely monitoring this very
transaction in order to avert the bad eggs in our society of today.

Today dated 30th of March 2023, we have instructed the Executive management
of (PROSPERITY BANK - CARTHAGE) to Release the said Funds Valued
$10,500,000.00 dollars to you as the certified Beneficiary in question,
because we have valuable information/records to authenticity that the said
Funds truly belongs to you. Be that as it may, you are required to provide
us with below listed information (for official verification).

1. First Name, Middle Name and Last Name.
2. Direct Telephone
3. Residential address.

We await your immediate compliance to this official obligation, so that you
can be paid by (PROSPERITY BANK - CARTHAGE) This bureau is closely
monitoring and supervising this transaction in order to ensure efficiency
and to also ensure that your rights are not violated.

Officially Sealed.

Mrs.Gloria Chavez.
Chief Patrol Agent
Rio Grande Valley Sector USA.

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