419 scam: Abdul Owosu <abdul@fukushima-toishi.com> REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT COLLABORATION

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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: Abdul Owosu <abdul@fukushima-toishi.com>
Reply-To: abdulinvestment@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:10:22 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT COLLABORATION

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Good day,

My Name is Abdul Owosu, a well to do Member of a major political party
in Ghana. I would like to seek your permission to present to you my
financial Proposal that might interest you.

My purpose of connecting you as a credible Individual with wealth of
experience in the areas of Entrepreneur, Fund Management and Investments
is to partner with me in securing some funds abroad for business
investment and safe keeping which I kept to help finance my senatorial
elections campaign under the party umbrella of National Democratic
Congress (NDC). Unfortunately for me I lost the senatorial seat to my
opposition member during party electoral college primary election .

But with my immediate contact, I was able to deposit some kickback money
US$25 million emanated from award of contracts awarded to
Chinese,Malaysia and Indian companies in a security vault with a
commercial bank in Ghana pending when I will found a trustworthy person
to move out the fund from Ghana to oversea bank account for business
investment.

The need to contact you arose from the fact that the present elected
government have now decided to crack down on past immediate government
functionaries and trying to trace all the funds that was made through
contract awards and other mouth watering deals during our tenure in the
government office, if they succeed in tracing this fund to me, they will
seize it and thereby incapacitating my life time opportunities.

Nevertheless, If you agree to partner with me on this transaction, you
will retain 20% of the US$25 million while Net Profits from any
investment established will be shared 50/50. I will provide evidence of
availability of the US$25 million such as Bank Statement, Certificate of
Fund Ownership and Proof of Fund Letter for your record. This
transaction requires collective responsibilities whereby each party has
a role to play in order to make our dream come to reality. If this offer
interests you, please respond for full details.

Sincerely,
Abdul Owosu

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