419 scam: Clara Kouassi <"Clara."@jewel.ocn.ne.jp> urgent assistance

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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:
- "million united states dollars" (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)
- "my names are " (a common phrase found 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.
- clara.kouassi1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Clara Kouassi <"Clara."@jewel.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Clara Kouassi <clara.kouassi1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:30:53 +0900 (JST)
Subject: urgent assistance

Hi Dear,
Greetings, my names are Clara Kouassi. I am 21years old, a citizen of Cote d$B!G(BIvoire, but am presently living now in Benin republic under United Nations High Commission for Refugees. I lost my parents in the middle war in our country on 2011. Please save my life by helping me out of this humiliation and predicament that I am going through here in this place. All of my family relatives were killed in during the war and I cannot go back there again because I have nobody there again. I really need your help; I want you to help me to receive my inheritance fund which my late beloved father deposited in a bank. I have all information and the vital documents concerning the deposit funds in the bank. The fund deposited in the Bank is total sum of US$7,000.000.00 (Seven Million United States Dollars), I just need this fund to be transfer to your country for investment purposes, and then after the fund transfer I will leave this place and come over to your country to continue my education there while you will help me to invest the funds till I finish my education.
Please, all I need is a reasonable foreign partner like you who will help me to stand as my legal guardian and foreign partner to claim the fund from the bank for investment purposes, someone who will be legal partner and guardian. Please if you are interested to help me receive my inheritance fund and safe my life, kindly get back to me as soon as possible through my email address and then I will give you more details. I have attached my pictures in this letter for your view, please send me yours too.
I wait for your most urgent response.
E-mail: clara.kouassi1@gmail.com
Thanks and God bless you!!!
Sincerely yours respectful,
Miss. Clara Kouassi

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