419 scam: "IDRISSOU"<oladelebalogun10@yahoo.com> THANK YOU

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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:
- "cotonou" (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: "IDRISSOU" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bank_of_africa_benin@accountant.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:36:35 +0100
Subject: THANK YOU

Thank you for open this email my name is SEIDOU IDRISSOU the DIRECTOR GENERAL of SEID HOUSING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT BENIN due to our partnership with nigerian for building CLEAN AND GREEN ESTATE in COTONOU BENrepublicPUBLIC.The former president of NIGERIA PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO,lure a huge of money in our account in BANK OF AFRICA.wish is money laundry,and now we;ve been traked by a body in nigeria called EFCC(economic finacial crime commision),this rumour get us by the former president to lure out the money from our account to any part of the world.
Dear mr and mrs please we need ur help,so that we can transfer part of the money in to your account or through western unoin in any country you are,the amount we can send to each each account we get is$ 5,000000 and each owner of the account we take 15 percentage of the money.as we other by the former president of the nigeria.
BUT NOTICE YOU WILL RETURN THE MONEY WHEN WE NEED IT

If you wish to help us please contact the managing director of BANK OF AFRICA BENIN Mr ABDOULAYE BIO TCHANE

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