419 scam: "Joseph Moise"<jmoise4@skymail.mn> Hi, From Joseph

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Joseph Moise" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jmoise3@skymail.mn>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 15:50:59 +0100
Subject: Hi, From Joseph

Dear Sir

I am contacting you to see if we can make a deal, My name is Joseph Moise. I don't want to waste your time so I have to go straight to the point, I discovered an
unclaimed inheritance fund here in our bank, Actually I don’t have to involve myself officially because of my job, As an Insider, I know what will be required to release the fund to you.

Please get back to me if you are interested with the below informations to enable me give you more details about this deal and how it will be carried out. This is deal is not mandatory, it's just a proposal, I personally is in need of this fund which is the reason I am contacting you through this medium.

FULL NAME: ............................
CONTACT ADDRESS: ................
NATIONALITY: ........................
PHONE NUMBER: ......................
OCCUPATION:......................
AGE: ...............................
AGE/SEX: ...........................

Kindly keep all details confidential and never you disclose this to a second party as there is a huge amount of scam going on all over the world. I made this proposal

very brief for security reasons.

Best regards,

Mr. Joseph Moise

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