419 scam: "Engr. Ibrahim Dango"<mmas44@login-org.ga> RE: JOINT INVESTMENT

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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million 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)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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.
- ibrahimdango57@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr. Ibrahim Dango"<mmas44@login-org.ga>
Reply-To: ibrahimdango57@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 03:33:41 -0400
Subject: RE: JOINT INVESTMENT

<HTML><BODY>Dear Friend 
Your profile was given to me by a commercial attaché from Uganda embassy here in Abuja in my request for a good and trusted partner to enter into joint venture with. As you know we have never meet before but am trusting you based on the good recommendation your country's embassy commercial attaché gave to you, please observe this matter with the high secrecy it requires, no third party apart from you and myself will know about this transaction for security reasons.
Below are the brief details of the business for your perusal, feel free to ask any questions for clarification.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My name is Engr. Ibrahim Dango, the special adviser to Dr. Mohammed Bello (Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja) on Contract Awards and Payments. Through my office, a lot of contracts were awarded to some foreign contractors by the government.  But my condition before allowing the Office Of The FCT Minister to award any contract to any contractor is that I will inflate the actual cost of the contract by 5%. All the contracts awarded have been successfully executed and the actual value paid out to the contractors. All the inflated 5% are now mine and have been released to me by the contractors. The total amount is 38Million Dollars.
For obvious reasons, I cannot deposit the money in any bank account in this country or invest it here, so with my influence and contacts, I have successfully placed the money in a in a financial firm in United Kingdom as money owned by a foreigner. 
I want you front you as the owner of the funds to enable the firm release the money to you for a joint investment with you.
Your role will be: 1. Act as the original owner of the 38Million Dollars 2. Receive the 38Million Dollars to your custody/ bank account 3. Invest/Manage the funds as joint investment until I am retired or resign from government work.
Every logistics and arrangements to release the money to you has been perfected and it will be done within 72 hours after I get your acceptance mail/letter to partner with me.
Awaiting your reply on : <A href="mailto:ibrahimdango57@gmail.com">ibrahimdango57@gmail.com</A>
Best Regards Engr. Ibrahim Dango</BODY></HTML>

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