419 scam: "Albert David" <albertdavid505@gmail.com> Hello

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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:
- "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)
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.
- albertdavid@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Albert David" <albertdavid505@gmail.com>
Reply-To: albertdavid@accountant.com
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:28:40 +0530
Subject: Hello

Hello

I am Mr. Albert David, a banker here in Ghana. I write you this proposal
in good faith hoping that I will rely on you. In 2010, Mr. Desmond Karim
who hails from your country as his place of origin/birth, made a fixed
deposit, valued at $ 10,600,000.00 (ten million,Six hundred thousand
Dollars) with my bank the ICB Bank, Accra Ghana. He was an oil merchant
and a contractor. He came here in Ghana for an oil exploration from your
country before he made the deposit through his Swiss account in
Switzerland! I was his account officer. Unfortunately, while on a
business trip, he died in a deadly Tsunami earthquake that occurred on
March 11, 2011 in Sendai Japan that killed many people.

The management of our bank have been sourcing for a means to reach him so
as to ascertain if he will want to roll over the Deposit or have the
contract sum withdrawn, when I discovered that this will happen, I learn
of his death, so I have tried to think up a procedure to preserve this
fund and use the proceed for charity. Some directors have been trying to
find out from me the information about this account and the owner, but I
have kept it closed because I know that if they become aware of his death,
they will corner the funds for themselves. Therefore, I am seeking your
co-operation to present you as the one to benefit from his fund at his
death since you’re from the same country, so that my bank head quarters
will pay the funds to you. I have done enough inside bank arrangement and
only have to put in your details into the information network in the bank
computers and reflect you as his next of kin.

I immensely request for your optimum honesty and cooperation and Let me
know your mind on this, and please do treat this information very urgent.
We shall go over the details once I receive your urgent response strictly
through my personal email address, albertdavid@accountant.com.. we can as
well discuss this on phone. Send me your phone number for easy
communication anticipating your communication. Please observe this
instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have
wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of doubt as
to what the consequences could be if my Bank finds out…This must remain a
secret between you and I, as I can’t afford to lose my job with the Bank.

Best Regards,
Mr. Albert David

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