419 scam: "John Komla"<jkomla22@accountant.com> Your help is urgently needed

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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:
- "escrow account with no beneficiary" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",500,000" (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.
- jkomla22@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Komla" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jkomla22@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 01:19:59 -0800
Subject: Your help is urgently needed

Good evening to you,

How are you doing today? I conveyed this letter to you few days ago with no response, and I am sending it again to you this time around. Its very paramount that you confirm your willingness to accept or reject my proposal as this will enable me stop further communication.
Let me swiftly introduce myself to you, my name is John Komla, the Auditing and Accounting Manager with a bank in Ghana. I am contacting you in the high opinion on a business at hand that will privileged both of us an opportunity for lifetime favor.
I'm in position of $9,500,000.00 (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) unaccounted for as a result of an overdraft from foreign contracts. I have placed this funds on Escrow Account with no beneficiary.
As the Auditing and Accounting Manager,it is my duty to send financial report to our Regional Head Quarters. I need your honest assistance and cooperation so I can use my position in the office channel these funds in your name legally as beneficiary for cash payment
and you take 50% as your share.

If you are interested contact me only at my email with your name, Address and phone number at: jkomla22@gmail.com

Thanks,

Mr.John Komla

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