419 scam: <favour2@excite.co.jp> Greetings to you and your family,

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "my names are " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- favourds@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <favour2@excite.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 01:49:43 +0900
Subject: Greetings to you and your family,

Greetings to you and your family,

My names are Favour David, I am a woman of 56 years old; actually I and my late husband are from Canada. and my husband worked with Canadian Embassy in Cote d$B!G(BIvoire Abidjan here, during his retired period he become buyer export of cocoa and coffee to the western countries before he died in the year 2010, we were married for Seventeen years without a child, and in his business time, he made a deposit of $4.5 Million in a fixed deposit account here in Abidjan, I don$B!G(Bt know if you are aware that Cote d$B!G(BIvoire here is producing the best coffee from the rest of the producing countries. this inheritance is earned from his coffee cocoa export business. and the fund is into a suspense reserved here and the deposit purpose is for onward transfer abroad, this is why I decided to donate the funds outside the country.

Please i need your urgent reply for more detail about this fund.

Remain blessed in the Lord
Mrs Favour David.
Reply back here (favourds@yahoo.com)

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