419 scam: "Willem JACOBUS"<willem.jacobus@laposte.net> CAN I TRUST AND WORK WITH YOU?

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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:
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- sdwillemj@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Willem JACOBUS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sdwillemj1956@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:20:12 +0200
Subject: CAN I TRUST AND WORK WITH YOU?

Greetings,

I am Mr. Willem Jacobus, I work with one of the international bank here in Benin Republic. I need your cooperation because it has been 7 years, that most of the greedy Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their contacts/advisers.

Some of these times, I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from files and no one cares because the money was too much for them to control.

>From the proceeds, I was able to recover and divert a total sum of Nine Million Three Hundred and Seventy thousand United State Dollars ($9.370M) and was logged as safe deposit in the vault with the help of agent now late.

Recently, the bank has become uneasy because of the long time dormancy of the safe deposit as a consequence now threatening to confiscate the deposit as abandoned/un-serviced.

Now, most of the politicians are no longer in power and my retirement is imminent hence, I am contacting you to assist me and move this fund out of the country to your country or any other convenient country for investment purposes.

You are kindly advised to only contact me via e-mail: sdwillemj@hotmail.com, if you are interested but if you are not just do me a favor by hitting the delete button of your system ok.

I hope to hear from you quickly.

Regards,

Mr. Willem Jacobus

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