419 scam: joel owura <joel.owura@gmail.com> You''re well positioned to facilitate this arrangement.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: joel owura <joel.owura@gmail.com>
Reply-To: joel_owura@uk2.net
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 06:33:05 -0700
Subject: You''re well positioned to facilitate this arrangement.

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Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Joel Owura, Accounts Supervisor with National Investment Bank
Ghana. I â€˜m seeking for your consent so as to make good use of your
data for NEXT OF KIN to late Mr. Edward Marples a citizen of your
Country.

Mr. Edward Marples until his death on board the ill fated Bellview
Airline flight 210 crash in October 22, 2005 in Nigeria is a citizen
of your country and he own a Gold Mining Concession in the Eastern
Region of Ghana. Before his death he was a customer with National
Investment Bank Ghana and had a balance deposit of US$1.02Million
which the bank expects his Next of Kin to repossess. As Accounts
Supervisor, I have made valuable efforts to get in touch with his
family for the past Nine years, but he had no known relatives.
Following this development, the Board of Directors of our Bank are
making arrangements to classify the account as Dormant Account at the
end of this financial year and subsequently transfer the money to the
Central Government purse. To stop this from happening, I have decided
to make the best use of this opportunity to reclaim this funds that's
why Iâ€™m seeking for your consent so as to make use of your data as the
NEXT OF KIN to late Mr. Edward Marples a citizen of your Country so
that the money with interest would be released to you and paid into
your receiving bank account anywhere in the world with my help from
here as INSIDER for us to share.

I urge you to be of help so that I may well execute this project
without suspicion from anywhere, be it from my bank or elsewhere.

Be informed that all documents that would aid for successful
transaction would be provided. Contact me via email ONLY.

Comment ASAP

Regards

Mr. Joel Owura

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