419 scam: "Kofi Willy"<communitybank@giga.ocn.ne.jp> PARTNERSHIP

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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:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- community.bank@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kofi Willy" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <comunitybank@yahoo.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:55:36 -0000
Subject: PARTNERSHIP

FROM THE DESK OF DR.KOFFI WILLY
BRANCH MANAGER COMMUNITY BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.
TELE/FAX: +233-2309-88216

Hello Dear,

Compliment of the Season

My name is KOFI WILLY, I am the branch manager of the COMMUNITY BANK Kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 52 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.

It may interest you to hear that I am a Man of peace and I don't want problem, but I do not know how you will feel about this because you may have double mind. But I am telling you that this is real and you are not going

to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can assist each other. But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it and I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the COMMUNITY BANK; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city (Accra-Ghana) at

the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2017 end of last year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Twenty-Five million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [25,

750.000.00] which my head office is not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this fund, so this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that you can assist and receive this fund into your bank account for us to SHARE. Mean

While you will have 35% of the total fund, Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with

our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account through our offshore payment bank in Europe. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will
appreciate it very much as soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how we can achieve it you can reach me on this mail for now community.bank@yahoo.com .

successfully.

Best Regards
KOFI WILLY

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