419 scam: "Mrs. Gamila Catherine" <karishama.singh6@gmail.com> Mrs Karishma Singh.

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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)
- "million united state 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)
- "million 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)
- "urgent assistance" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Gamila Catherine" <karishama.singh6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrscatherinemila@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:15:59 +0100
Subject: Mrs Karishma Singh.

Hello Dear Friend,

The internet has been grossly abused by scam artist and miscreants
whose intention is to hurt people. In as much as one should becareful,
same time we should not allow negative to kill the positive potential
in a realistic business such as this and 100% Risk free.

My name is Mrs Karishama Singh the Branch manager, (ADB) AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; I am married with three
children. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and
co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.
After annual audit Last month in my branch I discover documents of a
late client (Mr. Andreas Schranner) A German business magnate who made
a numbered fixed deposit with this branch valued $200 M (Two Hundered
Million United State Dollars,) and I was lucky to have the scan
documents of the funds and Gold with me in save position. Please take
note; the deceased customer of the bank Mr. Andreas Schranner is a
German business magnate who deals with most Petroleum Corporations
here in Africa. He made a fixed deposit of the huge sum of $200
Million US Dollars. And also the deposited gold bars with the purity
security and finance company. he bought these gold bars from the
company quantity of (950 kg) which worth ($28.5Million US Dollars) I
need your urgent assistance for the both of us to pull this gold bars
out from the company to your country And also the fund valued $200M
.This project will only last us 15 bank working days to finalize with
the bank or the security company of the gold bars, depending the first
one we chose to proceed with.I discovered from his contract employers,
the Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Andreas Schranner, died in the
plane crash Monday, 31 July 2000, (an air France jet liner) with his
entire family and other passengers on board as you can confirm it
yourself via the website below for (BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm

Note that you will have 50% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to
handle this business with me while 50% will be for me then after you
confirm this fund into your account Together With the gold bars then i
will come over to you country for the sharing of the fund. Please I
would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if
you are not interesting.

Reply for more details information
Thanks with my best regards

Mrs Karishama Singh

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