419 scam: "Kwabena Donkor" <printer@tptus.ru> Best 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:

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.
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.
- kwabenadonk1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kwabena Donkor" <printer@tptus.ru>
Reply-To: orevrichard@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 14:13:03 +0700
Subject: Best regards!

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Best regards!

My name is Mr Kwabena Donkor, The Branch Manager of a Financial
Institution. I got your contact through a reliable source called database
through Ghana chamber of commerce. I am a Ghanaian married with 3 kids. I
am writing to solicit your assistance to transfer a fund $12.5 million
which is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as
profit last year (i.e. 2018 financial year). I have already submitted an
annual report for last year to my head office in Accra-Ghana as I have
watched with keen interest as they will never know of this excess. I have
since, placed this amount on an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary
(Anonymous) to avoid trace.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money
thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money
into your bank account on my behalf. I agree that 40% of this money will
be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, and 60% would be for me. I do need to stress that there are
practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be E-online transfer
or bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original
depositor of this fund so that the fund can be transferred to your
account.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response to me.
This is why and only reason why I contacted you, I am willing to go into
partnership investment with you owing to your wealth of experience, So
please if you are interested to assist on this venture kindly contact me
back for a brief discussion on how to proceed.Please contact me with this
email address: kwabenadonk1@yahoo.com

Best regards,
Mr Kwabena Donkor

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