419 scam: "Michael O Sukeem"<obibi@amx.com> My refugee status,

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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:
- "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "the consignment" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "million 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)
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a orphan scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- michaelobibi@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Michael O Sukeem" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michaelobibi@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:44:37 +0100
Subject: My refugee status,

Dearest One.
I am Michael Obibi Sukeem the only surviving child of late Chief Elvis Obibi Sukeem who traded in gold and diamond before his assassination during the Zimbabwe white farmers’ civil war. My Father, mother, and two brothers were assassinated and burnt beyond recognition by rebels after looting cash, diamonds and gold from my family but somehow spared my life and that of my brother were spared.

I am contacting you in respect of the sum of US$5,000.000.00 million dollars deposited by my late father in a security company before he died. This money is part of money he realized from the sales of diamonds and gold by him. I got your contact on a notepad details that a previous user forgot to delete on the PC I am using on the Internet this morning and having been convinced from your profile that you are capable of handling a transaction of this magnitude, I decided to entrust you with this great task.
My father told me and my elder brother JULIUS Obibi Sukeem (who died on the 17Th of December 2010 due to poor medical attention resulting from my inability to buy prescribed drugs for him) about these deposits with this security company in Ghana, and when we came to Ghana after his death we found the security company and I confirmed that the three boxes containing US$5,000.000.00 million dollars each were still in their safe custody.
Due to our refugee status, we were not qualified to claim the deposits, in 4th April this year 2011 we contacted one MR. Dennis L. Matthews from United States of America to help us in claiming two of the boxes that contained US$5,000.000.00 million dollars each so that he will send us US$5,000.00 to enable us secure traveling documents to join him in United States of America and my late brother issued him a power of attorney which qualify him to claim the boxes, but when the first two boxes were handed over to him, he disappeared and that is the last we heard of him.
Since we were now unable to claim the last box.
The last box containing the remaining US$5,000.000.00 million dollars have remained under the custody of the security company here in GHANA.

Note that my late father deposited the money with the security company as family treasures for safe keeping so the security company is unaware that the actual content is cash.

What I require of you to do for me now is your agreeing to this proposal and I will contact our lawyer to issue you with a change of ownership to claim the box from the diplomat there in USA. (I beg for your utmost HONESTY assuring me that you will not betray me when the box is handed over to you.)

I agree to give you 20% of the US$5,000.000.00 million dollars and the balance 80% will be mine and you will assist me to secure new documents that will enable me to travel down to join you in your country and further my education.

Please in your reply include your full details for the Diplomat to contact you asap;
A: FULL NAMES
B: ADDRESS
C.DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.

As these information will be required by the lawyer who is my late father’s lawyer and the only lawyer that have authorization and jurisdiction to draft the new change of ownership that will be acceptable to the security company which once I send the copy to you, you will have authority to instruct the security company in United States of America to deliver the consignment to you as the new owner.

Note that the boxes contain spend able cash.

You to sign and return the change of ownership to me before you can claim and retrieved the consignments boxes with the Diplomat who is right now in United States of America until you have done this for me to take to the high court of Justice for endorsement and seal.
Also I have attached a copy of the certificate of deposit, copy of the WILL and a copy of my identification.

Best Regards,
Michael E. Obibi Sukeem.
Email: (michaelobibi@gmail.com)

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