419 scam: "Dr.Ali Duffour" <ochronamienia@neostrada.pl> United National Humanitarian Agency Ghana

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

Home

About Us

Spam

419/Nigeria

Fraud

Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

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 amount 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)
- "is highly 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: "Dr.Ali Duffour" <ochronamienia@neostrada.pl>
Reply-To: aliduffour750@msn.com
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:14:21 +0800
Subject: United National Humanitarian Agency Ghana

>From the desk
Dr.Ali Duffour
103 jubilee castle Accra.

Position: Director in charge
Humanitarian agency Bujumbura camp
Accra Ghana.

Dear Beloved Friend.
First and foremost, I do seek your interest about a business relationship that will be off help to my family and your family if honesty reflects between both of us.

I am Mr.Ali Duffour younger brother to Dr.Kwebena Duffour minister of finance Republic of Ghana.I am now the appointed Director of West Africa United Nation Refugee Movement on lost family treasure of Asylum children in all refugee camp in West Africa, I am the person that deal with united nation about humanitarian help, before refugee kids, father and Mother are allow to enter into any West Africa country for help, I will be notify first and what kind of treasure they are bringing in with them, if is ok by me I will grant entrance permit to the United National Humanitarian Agent to bring them inn but if is not by I will refuse the offer..

I want to relate with you, about some huge amount of money now in your country , the said amount belong to a very rich asylum boy, by age 18years, who his boxes was miss load into another plane that was not going the same direction the boy is going, so I was contacted to help in getting the boxes for the poor as my position, but the poor secretly review the content of his boxes to be, which is $45millionusd cash money, and at the moment the said boxes is now in the strong room of our United National office in your country , awaiting my decision before they will redirect the boxes back to Ghana or back to the place when the boxes are coming from.

Sharing will be deliberated on good fait between me and you. For your information the united Nation those not know the value of the boxes, and our United National Humanitarian Agents know nothing about the content of the boxes,all he knows is loss property belonging to Refugee boy coming from Sudan, so is highly confidential between you, me and the small boy.

I will stop here, until I hear from you before I provide you the procedure on how you can help in getting these boxes over there for me.
Sincerely, yours
Dr.Ali Duffour

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam