419 scam: "Ivan Svyda"<jilmi@rcn.com> Can I trust you ?

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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:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "million 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)
- ",000,000" (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: "Ivan Svyda" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ivansvyda5@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 14:29:13 -0800
Subject: Can I trust you ?

Hello Sir!

I am General Ivan Svyda, Ground Forces Commander, Ukraine. A
large sum of $35 million United States dollars (US$35,000,000.00)
was discovered and seized by the battalion under control, during
one of our raids and operations in the Russian strongholds of
Sevastopol, Ukraine. As a general commander, I have got the
mandate to control seized items, and the love and conscience I
have for the starving and dying Ukrainian children didn't allow
me to destroy these very huge sum of money as it will be widely
beneficial to the survivors of Ukrainian children scattered in
various mercy and pitiful refugee camps across the globe.

Innocent children are massacred daily by president Vladmir
Putin's soldiers in this ongoing unreasonable war of Russian
aggression and invasion of Ukraine. We're pushing very hard on
counter-offensives and I am in the frontline, as such, my safety
is not guaranteed. I was able to move the large sum safely via
the assistance of one of our security channels to a Financial
Security Deposit Company where it was safely and securely
deposited as 'FISCAL BONDS' with UNKNOWN as the beneficiary and
next of kin, only to be released to the holder of the LDC and
Reference security numbers which I will furnish you with on your
fast response to start and file the process of claims with the
security holding firm as my representative and beneficiary.

I stumbled on your information in my palm computer when I was
going through our military logistics softwares and logs and I had
to send this note to you because there's no time to look further
into the war frontlines in which I am a frontline commander here
in Ukraine. I am to believe you're trust-worthy and please for
God's sake and for the sake of humanity, I plead you ensure you
use at least %75 percent of these funds for the surviving poor
children of Ukraine scattered and tattered all over refugee camps
in the world.

I officially retired from the military on 29 May, 2010 but, I
volunteered and was called up again to serve because of this act
of war, terrorism and unreasonable Russian aggressions and
invasion of the Ukraine Federation. If I can serve humanity in my
own capacity you can too!

I look out for your reply soon!

Sincerely,
General Ivan Svyda
Ground Forces Commander, Ukraine

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