419 scam: Mohammed Kwame <mkwame@sify.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)
- "hundred thousand 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)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Mohammed Kwame <mkwame@sify.com>
Reply-To: mohamedkwam1@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:07:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?

Attention pls,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, Although Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr.Mohammed Isa Kwame, a Manager at the Union Bank Ghana. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.

A foreigner,(LATE ENGR ADEL HAMID) an oil Merchant /contractor with the Government of Ghana, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the Union Bank PLC, Ghana, and had a closing balance of USD$10.2M (Ten Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now expects to be claimed by any of his available Relative or next of kin without that it will be Considered frozen.

Valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in touch with any of late Engr's next of kin (he did not make known his wife or children) to the Bank. Now the board of directors, are making arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLIAMABLE " and then be subsequently becomes Union Bank's money. In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as the next of kin so that the fund, USD$10.2M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary (Relative) next of kin.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of the total amount. while the rest 70% would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your country. If this proposal is OK by you then kindly get to me immediately via e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Mohammed I Kwame
MANAGER UNION BANK of Ghana

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