419 scam: "Mr Williams Anderson"<wa363581@gmail.com> 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:

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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Williams Anderson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrwilliamsanderson@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:37:02 -0700
Subject: Best Regards!!

Best Regards!!

My name is Mr. Williams Anderson, I am the regional manager of the Ghana City Commercial Bank Tema Accra Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 52years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.

It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problems, I only hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it, as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the Ghana City Commercial Bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year. In the course of the last year 2023 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made eighteen million five hundred thousand dollars [US$18, 500.000.00] which my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected with this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 40% of the total fund. I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response I will detail you on how we can achieve it successfully.

Best regards,
Mr. Williams Anderson

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