419 scam: "Mr. Richard Williams"<deskofrichard.williams@BOG.com> Pending Funds Release

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- deskofrichard.williams@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Richard Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <deskofrichard.williams1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:59:13 -0000
Subject: Pending Funds Release

Dear sir,

I am Mr. Richard Williams. a banker with the Bank of Ghana. I am contacting you in regard of your fund in our bank.

I wish to bring to your notice through this medium, that if you are willing to receive your fund, that I will be willing to assist you unconditionally. Though you could still be promised heaven and earth by the so called officials in USA, Europe and Africa, whom I have discovered are not ready to help you receive your fund, but frustrate your efforts by cropping bills upon bills, which in the end will make you lose hope of ever getting your fund if they have not succeeded already.

Having said this, I am ready to help you receive your fund but provided you would be willing to follow the step which i would be given to you. Again, you should treat this communication with top confidentiality because of my position in the bank. For the sake of my job security, I deem it pertinent to reinstate that you desist from further contacts with whoever has been handling this transaction on your behalf in the past, as I have been able to sift that it was their inordinate ambition to direct your fund to another person that has put your file to this problem.

If you are ready to work with me on this, then call me on my telephone number: +233549116741 or write me on this Email: deskofrichard.williams@gmail.com,I will send you a copy of my ID for identification when I hear from you.

Yours truly.

Mr. Richard Williams

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