419 scam: "Magdaline Koivan" <mkoivan@email.com> INHERITANCE.

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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:
- ",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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- m.koivan@email.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Magdaline Koivan" <mkoivan@email.com>
Reply-To: m.koivan@email.com
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 01:50:36 +0300 (EAT)
Subject: INHERITANCE.

Hello,

I am Ms Magdaline Koivan from Freetown Sierra Leone in Africa. I am sorry
to bother you with my problem, but because I don't know what to do or
who to run to for help. My late father Chief Alfred Koivan was a Gold
Merchandise Exporter from Sierra Leone and Ghana to North America, South,
Central American and Europe, but died in a mining accident in 2012.

Ever since my late father's death my uncles has been disturbing me over
the distribution of his wealth, they have already succeeded in taking over
all my late father's properties in Freetown and leaving me with nothing.
Then I discovered that my father has the sum of $12,000,000.00 USD (Twelve
Million USA Dollars) he deposited in Bank of Ghana as belonging to his
Foreign Business Partner and I have all complete proof documents in my
custody.

This is why I decided to contact you to stand as my late father's Foreign
Partner and help me recover this money from Ghana, since it is only when
I present my late father's business partner, only then WILL this be released.

I am presently staying in a refugee Camp in Ghana. I will be glad if you
can help me receive this money in your name and I will come over to meet
with you in your Country to help me invest the money in a good business,
since I do not wish to go back to Sierra Leone with this money.

You will take 20% of the money and keep the rest for me. This is my only
hope of starting a new life.

Please reply me through m.koivan@email.com as I am stranded here and
can not even feed myself well.

Regards,

Magdaline Koivan

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