419 scam: "Jennard"<jennavarh@yahoo.com> From Jennard Varh

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million us 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)
- ",000,000" (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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jennard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jennardvarh@hotmail.fr>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:28:10 +0200
Subject: From Jennard Varh

From Jennard Varh.

This proposal is real, therefore I will like you to consider it very important and I'm assuring you that it is not a joke. I am Mr Jennard Varh of Eco Bank Togo, working in Audit and Account Unit. During the course of our auditing last year, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in our branch in 1992 and since 2003 the account has not been operated again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died along with his family in Iraq.

The owner of this account who was late Mr Richard Dulvy, an origin of Pakistan, a business man based here in Togo. He use to supply goods to most of the Oil servicing company here in Togo before he got a contract with the Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of the Houston-based oil company Halliburton in Iraq in 1999. According to a reliable information I gather by myself, he was in a Two vehicle convoy with his family traveling from Baghdad when their car hit an improvised device on the 5Th of August 2003.Until now no other person knows about this account or could give any documentary evidence concerning this account.

Meanwhile the total amount involved is amounting to ($6,000,000.00), therefore I am contacting you as a foreigner to present you as the next of kin to this our deceased client so that the proceeds of his account with our Bank amounting to $ 6 million US dollars can be paid to you and then you and I will share the money. The money can not be approved to a local account here,it could only be approved to any foreigner with valid information of the deceased account.

I know that you will be surprised to receive this message since we have not met before, however this is the only way I can contact you at this moment due to the nature of this deal. We shall know ourselves better as soon as you indicate your interest to work with me. I just want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful, all I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through.

Please get back to me soonest for more information. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Jennard Varh.

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