419 scam: DIRAROU SIDIBE <recrutementsc@la-guilde.org> ANSWER ME ASAP

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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:
- "trunk box" (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)
- "trunk boxes" (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)
- "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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.
- dseccjs@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: DIRAROU SIDIBE <recrutementsc@la-guilde.org>
Reply-To: "dseccjs@gmail.com" <dseccjs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 04:53:44 +0100 (CET)
Subject: ANSWER ME ASAP - URGENT

From: Dirarou S. Sidibe
07 BP. 49587 Lome Togo
dseccjs@gmail.com

My greetings and well wishes to you.

I want to use this moment to call to you attention that I am looking for a
missing client who is traceable to your family clan, because I carried out
his ancestral family search online to traced his family tree, and the
ancestors search result matched with your clan and revealed your contact to
me and that is why i am contacting you now. He is an investor and a
contractor here in our country. He is one of the reliable investors on most
of the private sectors and Government investments and contracts.
He introduced the contractors that successfully conducted and completed
Togo Road Construction contract in the year 1998. And he is also an
international investor in solid minerals such as precious stones, Diamonds,
mercury, gold bars, gold dust, and he as well deals
on Oil and gas etc. He went missing since his business trip to Saudi Arabia
on Wednesday 7th July 2004. But now, there is an urgent need of him or any
of his relative because his bank here wants him or his relative to run the
re-activation process of his bank account with the balance of
â‚¬22.7889Million Euros which became dormant after this past years the
account has not been operated by him. Also a family treasure safe keeping
security company here in the name of GSE that he deposited six trunk boxes
of Gold Bars and Gold Dust as family treasure and classified bond on 29th
December 2003 seeks for him as well.
Kindly get back to me so that I will give you his full details to enable
you give me any info or link about him that you can possibly provide, and
you will be highly rewarded for your time and any help you can offer.

Yours sincerely,

Dirarou S. Sidibe
07 BP. 49587 Lome Togo
+22896460352
dseccjs@gmail.com
http://www.courtecowas.org/site2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28&Itemid=6

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