419 scam: Falamou Garant <falamuaran12@gmail.com> PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

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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.
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.
- falamo3@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Falamou Garant <falamuaran12@gmail.com>
Reply-To: falamo3@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:24:35 +0000
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

Good day,

Attention Please!,

I hope all is well, Please Itâ€™s just my urgent need for foreign
partner that made me to contact you for your assistance. I am a banker
by profession in west Africa and currently holding the post of
Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.

I have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds ($11.6
million) of one of our bank clients who died in crash since seven
years ago and none of his family member or relation has come for the
claim, and now the bank is planning on how to confiscate the fund
since no one has come for the claim. Please without wasting time I
need your honest and humanity to execute this transaction under your
kind control for the mutual benefit of our both families.

And hence I am inviting you for this deal you will have 40% of the
amount mentioned above as my patina and the rest will be for me,
please if you are sure that you are capable to handle this transaction
and you are ready to assist me to execute this business with trust and
honest than the further details of the transfer will be forwarded to
you as soon as i receive your return mail,have a great day.

For more clarification reply me back on (falamo3@yahoo.com) and
please note that the claims is 100% free.

Thanks and God bless,

Mr.Falamou Garant

+226 74 62 09 72

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