419 scam: Mohammed Alpha <m_alpha01@yahoo.in> FROM MR MOHAMMED ALPHA

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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)
- "escrow account with no beneficiary" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",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)
- "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "there are practically no risks involved" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Mohammed Alpha <m_alpha01@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: Mohammed Alpha <moh2012_alpha@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:56:27 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: FROM MR MOHAMMED ALPHA

FROM MR MOHAMMED
ALPHA
Dear
Friend

Please in the name of God
i ask for your little time to read this message carefully to the excellency of
our mutual benefit. So please read this email very gently and tell me what you
think, if we can transact it together or not. And please after reading, if it
does not interest you please kindly delet the mail and keep the secret of what
you red within you.

My name is Mohammed Alpha I am the Operation
Manager in
Bank Of Africa,headquters Republic of Burkina-Faso I got your information when i
was searching for an oversea partner amongother names.I promise this to you in
goodfaith,I am 52 years old,An Ethiopian white based in Burkina-Faso Republic,
married with four lovely kids.

I have a very important
business which i would like to execute with you which involves some reasonable
amount of cash and no risk involve, i have packaged a financial
transaction that
will benefit you and I, as the OPS manager in this bank it is my duty to send in
a financial report to my headmen office in Potonovo at the end of each business
year. On the course of the last year business report, i discovered that we made
FIVE MILLI BRITISH POUNDS (£5,000,000.00 GBPS) which our head
office do not know about, and no single staff is
aware of this oversurplus extra cash and will never be aware of it since i have
wisely parckaged an arrangement to move out the money for myself as i intend to
retire from service soon. I blinded the files. I have placed this funds on what
we call escrow account with no beneficiary and awaiting data, so that it would
be simply easy for anybody to claim peacefully.

As an officer of this
bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you
is for you to apply and stand as the beneficiary to this money and order the
bank to transfer it into your account with immediate effect. As soon as you
receive it in your bank account, i agree that you will take 40% of the total
funds as your commission. There are practically no risks involved in this event,
it will be a bank-to-bank wire
transfer ,
and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of the fund
who made the deposit with this bank so that my head office can order the
transfer to any of your bank account that you shall indicated. I assure you that
hence you apply as the beneficiary of the fund it shall be vividly released to
you.

If you accept to work
with me I will appreciate it very much. so that we can go over the details and i
will give you my full information and relay to you more information on the money
and explain to you how we should start the claim. Remember there is no risk
involved, i promise.
Thank you in advance and
May God bless you and your family.
Yours
truly

MR MOHAMMED ALPHA BLESSED BE THE
GOD

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