419 scam: Williams Burns <collinsval4real20061@yahoo.com> Re: Investment Request

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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!

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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: Williams Burns <collinsval4real20061@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Williams Burns <will.burns2016@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:34:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Investment Request

Hello Sir/Madam
Sir,
I am a sister in law of Germaine Katanga, the rebel of Congo DRC, who has been imprisoned by ICC at The Hague. Since the imprisonment of my in law, the wife with two children and family has been oppressed by the present Government of their Country, and the wife currently placed under house arrest, after most of Katangaâ€™s assets have been freezes by the Government.
I and the wife just visited to see my in law in prison and to discuss issues about the family, and my in law revealed to me that he has a clean deposit of US$20,250,000.00 and 150kgs of gold bars in safe custody, and he advised the wife to leave Congo D.R.C, to Kenya where she can discuss with reputable firm or individual who can manage an investments, and he has given me info of the custodian agent who is ready to meet to entrust the funds under any one we shall chose, and discuss terms with the person.
This is why I have contacted you to discuss on the investments and for clear evidence of the ICC case, kindly logon to the ICC case file to watch the jail sentence by ICC thus: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27531534 If the family investment appeal interests you to assist, send me your acceptance letter with your company/telephone and ID info to discuss.
Thank you.
Mr. Williams Burns
+233238070598

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