419 scam: John Kofi <> Regards.

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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:
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a next of kin 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.
- email.icb_accra_gh_01@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: John Kofi <>
Reply-To: icb_accra_gh_01@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:46:12 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Regards.

I am a staff of one of the leading banks in Africa Ghana. I am writing asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds, which we want to keep under your supervision. The Funds totaling($6,900,000)

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local Bank here, Because the funds are in US Dollars. belonging to one Mr. Morris Thompson, an American nationality, A businessman, he died since 2000 in an air crash along his family .

You can confirm from this website:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it. The account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about his account. The Strategy is to use my influence as his account manager to approve the funds in your name.

If you are interested, forward to me your Name's, Cell Phone/fax,Profession,Age and Country, so I can contact you. For more details. What you need to do is to get a lawyer from High Court of Ghana. The only thing you need in this transaction is to do the change of ownership of the funds to your name legal. That will empower our Bank to transfer the funds to your account within 48 hours. I wont you to stand as a foreign Business Partner to late Mr. Morris Thompson so that you can claim the funds out from the Bank.

Get back to me ON my email.icb_accra_gh_01@yahoo.com

Regards.

John

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