419 scam: Bank Of Africa <tani-tateki@ruby.plala.or.jp> Good News!your FUND of (USA)$4.5M is Ready

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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:

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.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22961235257 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Bank Of Africa <tani-tateki@ruby.plala.or.jp>
Reply-To: boaza@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:47:52 +0900
Subject: Good News!your FUND of (USA)$4.5M is Ready

Good day,

How are you today? A Lady called ( Miriam Mobril ) contacted This Office Today to Claim your Fund of (USA)$4.5M (four million five hundred thousand dollars) in this Bank, she sated that she is your younger Sister, she told us that you have given her permission to Claim Your Fund, and here is the address she provided to us,

Address: 195 Spring Hollow Ct. Roswell, GA 30075

I will like to know and to confirm if you are the one that gave her the power of claim, if yes,kindly provide a letter of claim from a chief judge or from a reputable attorney in your country before This Office can release your Fund of (USA)$4.5M (four million five hundred thousand dollars) to her, if no, you are to quickly inform this office to avoid wrongful Transfer, here is our new.

And she even say that she will pay for the needed fees of 68usd, so we are still search if we can release the Fund for her or not since we cant heard from you since last year until today. But due try to response back to us so that we can give you the information on how to make this payment OF 68usd that needed, so that your FUND will be release once we get you feed back, Be aware that if we cant heard from you untill 24 hours the fund of $4.5 M USD will be release to her as the real owner thanks.

Mark Udo
Call me now before it will be late. +229 6123 5257

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