419 scam: "JOYCE ABU"<abu_joyce@yahoo.com> GENIUE AND HONEST DEAL

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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:
- "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "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 next of kin 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.
- 233abu@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JOYCE ABU" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jjabu2014@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 17:07:54 -0700
Subject: GENIUE AND HONEST DEAL

From: Ms. JOYCE ABU
Account/Auditing Department
UBA Bank Ltd- Accra
Ghana.

Hello Dear

I am Ms. Joyce Abu, I am a staff of UBA Bank Ltd (Ghana). I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and confidential business proposal which I believe will profit both of us after completion. I contacting you after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this top secret business transaction, which I explained below. I need your urgent assistance to claim and transfer the sum of ($10.5Million) immediately to your account deposited by one of our late customers Mr. Andreas Schranner Md for years.

Andreas Schranner Md, was a German property magnate who died long side with his entire family, his wife Maria, daughter Andréa Erich, her husband Christian, and their children Katharina and Maximilian, all died in Plane Crash, which crashed on Monday,25th July, 2000 by CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590].See the website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm). this fund has been dormant (in-active) for years in our bank here without anybody coming for it and now I decided to use this as an opportunity to enrich myself by associating with you to claim the fund and have it transferred to your account. with the new Republic of Ghana financial laws, if the funds are not claimed by any one or his family relations, the money will be mark as an abandoned fund and will go into Government treasury as an abandoned fund, this is the reason why I decided to contact you to negotiate with me to stand as the next of kin to the deceased and beneficiary of the funds so that my Bank will release th
e fund to you as the near

My position here as an account officer requires me to investigate which l did and discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official bank deposit documents in my bank and according to the Republic of Ghana financial Law, the money will revert to the ownership of the Ghana government treasure if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the Ghana Government treasure account as unclaimed funds, I decided to seek your quick assistance to stand as the next of kin so that this amount would be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into your account, therefore, if you would be interested to handle this confidential transaction with me, do reply me through this e-mail:(233abu@gmail.com), I will give you all the details including your percentage for your assistance. keep this proposal as a top secret or delete it if you are not interested at all.

I look forward to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms.Abu

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