419 scam: Yaneka Bouneha <ghasemi876@yahoo.com> Greetings my dear friend!!!

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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)
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (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)
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "ybou1937@yandex.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Yaneka Bouneha <ghasemi876@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ybou1937@yandex.com
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:47:28 +0100
Subject: Greetings my dear friend!!!

Dear friend,

I hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to impose on you for our mutual benefit. My name is Mr. Yaneka Bouneha a banker by profession from Burkina-Faso in West Africa and currently holding the post of Manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department with one of the prime Bank here in my country.
There is one of our foreign customer that made fix deposit for 7 years, upon maturity we sent routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After some months, we sent reminder and finally we discovered that he passed away after brief illness in his country. We tried everything humanly possible to locate his relatives or supposed next of kin but all efforts failed. The deposit is still intact with my bank and the interest is being paid into the account annually. According to the law, if the fund still left dormant in the account for next couple of months it will be confiscated into the government treasury as unclaimed fund. It is for these reasons that I have seek for your urgent and sincere help to get this fund transferred out of this country into your bank account, a bank account in any part of the world can facilitate the transaction. The amount in this account is (Eleven Million Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars).

Since we got information about his death, the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come forward for the claim and it can only be released once somebody applies as next of kin or relation to the deceased according to our banking law. Moreover he did not give any name as the next of kin in his paper work with the bank during the deposit, and for this reason you can be reassured that the transaction is hitch-free and you should not entertain any atom of fear as my position in this bank guarantees the success hence you will follow my instructions.

I therefore decided to contact you to assist me actualize this business and also to share the benefit with me. I agree that 40 % of this fund will be for you as my foreign partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account, while 60% will be for me. I will provide you with any information that maybe required by the bank to ensure that the fund is transferred successfully into your bank account, but you must keep the transaction as top secret.

Further contact should be via this my private email: ybou1937@yandex.com

I am waiting for your urgent reply.

Best Regards

Mr. Yaneka Bouneha.

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