419 scam: Mr Maxwell Zoro <ggy@osb.att.ne.jp> Auditing And Accounting Manager

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "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)
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Maxwell Zoro <ggy@osb.att.ne.jp>
Reply-To: maxzoro@cantv.net
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:06:29 +0900
Subject: Auditing And Accounting Manager

FROM MR. MAXWELL ZORO.
Auditing And Accounting Manager.

Dear Friend,
CONFIDENTIAL.

This message might meet you in utmost surprise; Firstly, I am MR.MAXWELL ZORO. I am the manager of Accounts/Operations Department of one of the Prime banks here in Abidjan Ivory Coast,it's just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $ 17.2m US dollars (Seventeen Million Two Hundred Thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer from Frances who died along with his entire family in 6th December 2003 in a plane crash (MR.PAUL LOUIS from Paris , France ).

Here is the website below for more information about the Plane Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late MR. PAUL LOUIS : http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm

Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that he have no child who can claim the money leaving nobody behind for the claim and i you to stand as his next of kin.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Eight to Nine years and above, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

I will like you to help me in transfering it into your Bank account, we have to share it 50/50 and I believe that you can not cheat me after the transferred, I will send you more detail about this transfer as soon as I hear from you.

Please make sure you keep this transaction as your top secret and make it confidential till we receive the fund into the account that you will provide to the Bank. Don't disclose it to any body, because the secrecy of this transaction is as well as the success of it.

Please get back to me urgently.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Maxwell Zoro.

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