419 scam: "From. Natou Johnson." <ms.natou@bizzmail.org> Greetings in the name of the Almighty, From. Natou Johnson.

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "From. Natou Johnson." <ms.natou@bizzmail.org>
Reply-To: ms.natou@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:16:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Greetings in the name of the Almighty, From. Natou Johnson.

Greetings in the name of the Almighty, From. Natou Johnson.

Greetings in the name of the Almighty, and may his grace continue to assist you and I, as you open your heart in helping me out of this unbearable situation of my family disaster. Please give me this Godly help for our Almighty will reward you in abundant. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country, though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of ($6.5Million) U.S dollars which my late Father kept with a Fiduciary Fund Holder here in Abidjan the Capital of Ivory Coast before his death.

Now I have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. I want you to help me claim and retrieve this fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes. I am Natou Johnson, the daughter of late Colonel Johnson Traore who died on after he was badly tortured by the security agents of the present government of president Laurent Gbagbo of the Republic of Ivory Coast for honoring the invitation to a dinner by the French Ambassador with his two colleagues, after the dinner they were arrested by the security agent of the present regime and was accessed of being traitors to their motherland knowing the political problems between Cote d'Ivoire and France.

I will be pleased to offer you 20% of the total fund for your assistance to me.

I am wait your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Ms. Natou Johnson.

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