419 scam: "Rasheeda Abdul"<demo@winwebmail.com> From Miss Rasheeda Abdul, I need your help to investment this fund

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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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "the 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)
- "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)
This email message is a orphan scam.
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.
- rasheeda.abdul@africamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rasheeda Abdul" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <AbdulRasheeda@graduate.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 13:49:20 -0700
Subject: From Miss Rasheeda Abdul, I need your help to investment this fund

From:Rasheeda Abdul

Dear Sir/Madam,

Good day to you sir ,I hope all is well with you and your family, I got your contact from a reliable source and I am sending you this email with the spirit of happiness and with great amount of trust. I believe you will be able to assist me with my proposal.

I am Miss Rasheeda Abdul, the only surviving daughter of Dr.Abdul Sheriff of Sudan who was the formal minister for finance and mine in my country Sudan . As a matter of fact and urgency,I want you to stand as my legal Foreign Beneficiary to receive my consignment worth $15.8million and 150kg of Gold in your country for investment deposited by my late father in Security Finance Company here in Ghana West Africa.

I am 24years old seeking asylum in the Bujumbura refugee Camp here in Ghana and my only hope in life is this consignment, my late father instructed the security company that the consignment should be clear and ship to oversea for investment and for that reason I the next of Kin must provide a Foreign Beneficiary to receive it for investment.

Send the below information:

Full Names................
Delivery Address.........
Country..................
Occupation...............
Phone....................
Number...................
Fax......................
Number...................
Age......................

All the legal document that cover up the consignment in the security company are well intact with my late father Attorney and the transaction is 100% legal and risk-free from any security reasons, I want you to send to me your full information to give to my late father Lawyer that you are willing to Receive my consignment for investment and he will send to you all the legal document and make arrangement for the clearing of the consignment from the security company and ship to you in your country. Send your reply to Rasheeda.abdul@africamail.com

I hope to hear from you soon God bless you.

Rasheeda Abdul

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