419 scam: Moses Clifford <mosychristy@gmail.com> Your Cooperation 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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "consignment " (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)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a orphan scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mosychristy@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Moses Clifford <mosychristy@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mosesclifford10@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:53:23 +0600
Subject: Your Cooperation Needed

Good day and compliments, I know this letter will definitely come to you as a
huge surprise, but I implore
you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will
go off a long way to determine
my future and continued existence.

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Moses Clifford, from Liberia .I am
desperately in need of assistance
and I have summoned up courage to contact you. I am presently in Ghana and I
found your contact particulars in
an address journal.

I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $18.5 million (eighteen
point five Million U.S Dollars) to
the States or any safe country,as far as I can be assured that it will be
safe in your care until I join you up.

This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved.

SOURCE OF MONEY:
It is the truth, my late Father Mr Ochuko Clifford was a big time investor in
Ghana before he was murdered,he
deals on cocoa,gold and diamond that he always carried out of the country
before he left for his country
Liberia to pursue politics and he never return again,but before his death he
has deposited this money with the
safe security company here in Ghana because this were he spent his entire
life struggling life out.According to
the document shown to us by his Barrister,i am the next of kin.l have
contacted the security company to confirm
the deposit and establish ownership,The consignment box is still with the
safe security company here in Ghana.

This and other reasons put into consideration have prompted me to reach out
for your help,If it might be of
interest to you then Endeavor to contact me Via email:mosychristy@gmail.com
and we would work out the necessary
formalities but I pray that you are discreet about this mutually benefiting
relationship.

Thanks and God Bless you,

Regards,
Moses Clifford.
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