419 scam: Anna Johnson <annajohnson0012@gmail.com> Hopefully from Anna Johnson

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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 states 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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Anna Johnson <annajohnson0012@gmail.com>
Reply-To: annajohnson3@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:55:03 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hopefully from Anna Johnson

>From Anna Johnson,

Good Day and God bless you,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship

with you, My Name is Anna Johnson a Citizen of Burkina Faso, the only daughter

and the only child of late Dr Johnson Micheal, I am 18 years old girl, My

father was the Director of cocoa and coffee products and exportation in

Burkina Faso Government.

Before the death of my father on 18th August 2012 He gave me Deposit Slip

of ($7,000,000,00 USD)in words Three million United States Dollars which

he deposited In Atlantic Bank Group in Burkina Faso where i am now, He

also made me to understand that it was because of his position that he was

poisoned by Government associates while on a business trip to France with

them and he instructed me to look for a foreign

partner not from this country who will help me and transfer this money out

of here and invest it for me

I traveled to Burkina Faso last week to claim the money, which i went to

the bank and the bank Director told me that i must present a trustee or a

guidian to the bank before they will release the money to me, that is an

Instruction that my late father gave to them before he died.

I seriously and sincerely contacts you with tears to help me transfer this money into your account and help me come over to your place to further my School before my wicked uncle will locate me and kill me because he wants to take this my inheritance fund from me.Please do not betray me or cheat me Once the fund has been in your account.i will never cheat you.I will give you 40% of the fund for helping me.

I have all the legal documents here to back you back you up.

I am waiting to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely

Anna Johnson .

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