419 scam: "Isabelle M.Ameganvi"<m.isabelleameganvi222@gmail.com> Hello dear friend

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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:
- "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)
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.
- m.isabelle.ameganvi@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Isabelle M.Ameganvi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <m.isabelle.ameganvi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:30:57 +0700
Subject: Hello dear friend

Notification Greetings,

I am requesting your partnership to invest in Maritime business, or
real estate business. I believe that I have to partner with you as a
citizen with experience for successful investment in your Country.

My name is Mrs. Isabelle M.Ameganvi My dead husband deals in Crude Oil
with the Federal Government of Sudan and we have a personal Oil firm in
Bentiu Oil zone town and Upper Nile city. What I have experienced
physically, I don't wish to experience it again in my life. This is due
to the recent civil and Ethnic crises caused by our President Mr. Salva
Kiir and the rebel leader Dr. Riek Machar. I have been under the United
Nation refugee camp in Chad to save my life and that of my little
daughter. I want to solicit for your partnership with a trust to
transfer and invest the $8 million dollars deposited by my late husband
to your country. This is because my life is no longer safe in our
country, since the rebels are looking for the families of all the oil
businessmen in the country to kill, saying that they are the people
that are milking the country dry.

Though, I do not know how you will feel about my proposal,
but the truth is that I sneaked out from our country and moved to Chad,
our neighboring country where I am living now as a refugee.

I escaped with my little daughter when the rebels burst into our house
and killed my husband as one of the big oil dealers in the country,
ever since then, I have been on the run.

I left my country and moved to Chad, our neighboring country with the
little ceasefire we had. This is due to the face to face peace meeting
accord, coordinated by the former US Secretary of State, and United
Nations in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa), between our President Mr. Salva Kiir
and the rebel leader Mr. Riek Machar to stop this war.

I will send you the recent statement of account and the other documents
of the fund with bank details for your acknowledgement and proof.

I will wait to hear from you so as to give you details.You can contact
me on my private email m.isabelle.ameganvi@gmail.com.

With love from

Mrs. Isabelle M.Ameganvi.

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