419 scam: Miss Blessing Ankrah <b.ankrah@laposte.net> Please help me and my brother.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
This email message is a orphan scam.
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.
- ankrah.blessing@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Blessing Ankrah <b.ankrah@laposte.net>
Reply-To: Miss Blessing Ankrah <sdr_mdh55@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 10:14:21 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Please help me and my brother.

Dear friend,

Please forgive my intrusion into your privacy, I am Miss Blessing Ankrah, I am a Ghanaian, My late father John Ankrah was one of the victims in the Car Accident during the time of our late president, John Evans Atta Mills, who died on the 24 July 2012.This message might meet you in utmost surprise as it was due to the urgency implied and I need your full help that made me contact you today.

We are two, I and my brother, We lost our mother when I was Nine years old, I am always close to my late father, he told me that he have An account in Eco Bank Burkina Faso West African. One Million, Two Hundred Thousand USA Dollars. After the death of my father I and my brother went to Burkina Faso, to stay over there and start a new life.

I personally decided to contact you and to seek your consent to assist me and apply to the bank as the next of kin to the fund, so that the proceeds of his account can be paid to you for our benefits. In order to take us further, I will like you to come down here and see everything by yourself. In your reply I will like to see you in web camp so that when you get here both of us will know each other. We shall discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer as I hear from you or when you come down here. Please you can reply me through my id (ankrah.blessing@yahoo.com)

Thanks
Miss Blessing Ankrah

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