419 scam: Joseph Essah <josephessah@jjmacp.com> GOOD DAY

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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:
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Joseph Essah <josephessah@jjmacp.com>
Reply-To: josephessah@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:53:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GOOD DAY

Meridian House
Ring Road Central
Private Mail Bag No.16
Accra, Ghana

Attn!

I am Joseph Essah,a banker in International Commercial Bank Ghana. I am contacting you for a possible business transfer, I am using this moment to give you the cognizance and also to seek your assistance to this business proposal.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of ($26.5Million) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers an American Mr.Bob Williams, who died along with his entire family in Alaska Plane crash on February 1st 2000.According to our banking law, if the funds remains unclaimed for Ten (10) years then, the fund will be transferred into the reserve bank as unclaimed bill.

I want to present you as his business partner so that the bank will
transfer the fund into your bank account for us to share it. Your
percentage will be 40% while 60% will be for me. As an insider in this
bank, I assure you that, this transaction is 100% risk free involvement. If you are willing for this deal, contact me for more details but if you are not capable, stay clear.

Do not view this as being illegal but an opportunity for us to enrich our hope in life instead of the bank converting this much money to the
security funds, all required arrangements have been made for the smooth transfer of these funds into your account, and your acceptance is what will crown this effort. It will be my interest to finish this transaction with you, all I need from you is sincerity and trust to achieve this goal.

If you can be a collaborator to this transaction, please indicate your
positive interest immediately for us to proceed. Remember this is
absolutely confidential.

I will appreciate you give me a call any time on receipt of this e-mail for more oral clarification and for your better understanding.

Yours Faithfully
Mr. Joseph Essah
Tel +233 546-778-144

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