419 scam: "Henry Danfour"<hd@yahoo.co.jp> Re: Good Day Your Urgent Advice Need In Investing In Your Country

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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:
- "million united state 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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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.
- h1534567@yahoo.co.jp (Yahoo, Japan; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Henry Danfour" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <h1534567@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:36:30 -0800
Subject: Re: Good Day Your Urgent Advice Need In Investing In Your Country

Good Day,

I have been in search of someone that i can trust from your country and It is my pleasure to seek for your business assistance, and I want you to consider it very important.This is an opportunity I would want us to utilize well. I am Mr.Henry A Danfour, an officer incharge of Auditing and Accounting section with (Universal Broad Bank Ghana), and also a Relationship Account Officer to Dr Andrea.

One Late Dr Andrea , a citizen of your country had a fixed deposit with my bank in 2006 for 48 calendar months, valued at USD$15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million United State Dollars) the due date for this deposit contract was this 16 of July 2010.

Sadly Dr Andrea was among the death victims in the May 26 2006 Earthquake disaster in Java, Indonesia that killed over 5,000 people. He was in Indonesia on a business trip and that was how he met his end, I have carried out various inquiries to locate any of his client and extended relatives but this has proved unsuccessful.

Since the demise of this our customer,Dr Andrea, who was an seasoned oil Merchant/contractor here.I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the said money in this a/c as next of kin.

I hereby write in regards to this effect to have you stand as the rightful beneficiary to Late Dr. Andrea so that the funds will be claim and transferred into your foreign account before my Bank declare the total fund unserviceable or confiscated.Please you will be entitled to a percentage that will be discussed later with you and there is no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.

I immensely request for your optimum honesty and cooperation and Let me know your mind on this, and please do treat this information as TOP SECRET. We shall go over the details once I receive your urgent response strictly through my personal email address,(h1534567@yahoo.co.jp) We can as well discuss this on phone.

Anticipating your communication.

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Henry A Danfour

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