419 scam: "Access Investment Services Limited,"<tn.tirunelbusstand@caddcentre.ws> FROM:Mr.Koji Ishida WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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.
- koji_ishida06@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Access Investment Services Limited," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <koji_ishida06@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:26:36 -0500
Subject: FROM:Mr.Koji Ishida WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Koji Ishida, the Auditor General of our company Access Investment Services Ltd, Japan. In the course of my auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account which was opened in 1990 belonging to a dead foreigner Late Mr. Hubert Ramsden who died in 1999. Our records show that every effort made by our company to track any member of his family or any one as the next of kin has since failed because the deceased died leaving no heir or a will in his file. I and my partner have decided to contact you to stand as the next of kin since you bear the same last name with the deceased.

We intend to facilitate the transfer of this sum of $18.5Million in the Investment Deposit to a safe account overseas. I am therefore proposing that you confidentially partner with us by standing as the next of kin and provide an account or set up a new one that will serve the purpose of receiving this fund. For your assistance in this venture, we are ready to part with a good percentage of the entire funds. After going through the deceased person's records filed in our office, I discovered that no one has operated this account since 1999 till date and he died without an heir; no one has come forward for this claim, hence the money has been floating.

The information we have on this account is privileged and confidential as no other person has access to this. If we do not remit this money urgently, it would be forfeited and subsequently converted to company's funds which will benefit only the share holders of our company. This money can be approved to you legally and with all the necessary documentary approvals in your name. However, you would be required to show some proof of claim which I will provide you with and also guide you on how to make your applications.

Please do give me a response through my private Fax number or email so that I can send you detailed information on the modalities of my proposition. I completely trust you to keep this proposition absolutely confidential. I look forward to your prompt response.

Best Regards,
Mr.Koji Ishida
Access Investment Services Limited,
Tokyo, Japan.
Email: koji_ishida06@yahoo.com.hk

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