419 scam: Miss Charlotte Boigny <umetusarh@yahoo.co.jp> GREETINGS

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

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Charlotte Boigny <umetusarh@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Miss Charlotte Boigny <charlotteboigny@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 01:04:49 +0900 (JST)
Subject: GREETINGS

With warm heart we offer Our friendship and greetings to you.

I am 21 years and my younger brother 18 years undergraduate and don't
know what to do as we have suffered lots of set backs as a result of the
political crisis of our country and the death of our father actually brought
sorrow to our life.

The source through which we got your contact gave us the confidence to
contact your kind assistance to help us to transfer and secure the sum of
Nine Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand Six Hundred and seventy Dollars
(US$ 985.670.00) we inherited from our late father.

I and my brother, have decided to invest this money in your peaceful country
and with your experience, we think you are in good position to assist us

archieve our aim, that is securing of this fund and investing it under your guardian.

Our late father was a wealthy Agricultural Business man of Cocoa & Gold
before his tragic death, he handed me the deposit documents because our
mother died many years ago.

Please we do hope to hear from you on reciept of this mail so I can give
you more details and present you to the bank as our foreign partner.
Meanwhile, we have agreed to offer you 1/2 of the total amount for your
sincere assistance.

Best regards,
Miss Charlotte/David Boigny.

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