419 scam: "James Johnson"<jj924032@gmail.com> From James Johnson

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "trunk box" (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)
- "trunk boxes" (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)
- "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)
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.
- jj924032@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "James Johnson" (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 05:13:13 -0700
Subject: From James Johnson

Hello Friend,

I am James Johnson, I am a personal assistant to Late President Jerry John Rawlings. He was a former president of the Republic of Ghana, he died on 12 November 2020 and was buried on January 27th, 2021.

I don’t know you in person. I got your contact from a google search but, I believe as a mature person with a global understanding can keep whatever I want to disclose to you as top secret.

Before the death of my boss, the president, he had an ongoing $38 Million USD deal with one politician from Lome, Togo a Law-maker (Senator). I don’t want to write his name now for security reasons since he is still in service.

The law-maker want to move out of Africa the sum of $38 Million USD and contacted my boss the Late President for an assistant with his global contact and the fund has already left Togo and has arrived Ghana a month before his death and he has used his contact to move it immediately to Belgium without knowing he will die shortly. The fund is in cash and it is loaded in trunk boxes and currently, as I am writing you the trunk boxes are still kept in a Financial and security Company in Brussels,Belgium before the death of my boss the former president in November 2020.

Due to internet/social media scam, I have been praying to find a reliable person who can assist me now in receiving the fund, because the Law-maker asked me to look for a trustworthy person who can help in receiving and investing the $38M in Europe where the fund is current located in a financial and security company since then.

Please note that business of this huge sum cannot be done by email or online only, if you are interested to be part of this, we shall be inviting you to visit Belgium for a round table meeting with the officer in charge of the security company, then you will be taking to inspect the funds before onwards shipment to the place of your choice because we don’t want to be scam or if you have interest to lodge it in a Bank anywhere the officers promise to assist you with that without intch after which we shall arrange on a business deal to do with the fund.

I will be waiting to hear from you and if you have any questions you are free to ask.
Kindly write to me or call me.

Thanks

James Johnson
Reply : jj924032@gmail.com

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