419 scam: MR JHORGE <jhorgejames83@gmail.com> Re: I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY

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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:
- "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- jhorge.james@ig.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MR JHORGE <jhorgejames83@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jhorge.james@ig.com.br
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:21:38 +0000
Subject: Re: I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY

Greetings to you and your family.
My name is (Mr,hamsu konate), the director general with the bank, Africa
Develop bank (ADB) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in West Africa. I am
contacting you to seek our honesty and sincere cooperation in confidential
manner to transfer the sum of 10.5 (Ten million five hundred thousand
Dollars) to your existing or new bank account.

This money belongs to one of our bank client, a Libyan oil exporter who was
working with the former Libyan government; I learn t that he was killed by
the revolutionary forces since October 2011. Our bank is planning to
transfer this entire fund into the government public treasury as unclaimed
fund if nobody comes to claim the money from our bank after four years
without account activities by December 2014.

We did not know each other before, but due to the fact that the deceased is
a foreigner, the bank will welcome any claim from a foreigner without any
suspect, that is why I decided to look for someone whim I can trust to come
and claim the fund from our bank.

I will endorse your name in the deceased client file here in my office which
will indicate to that the deceased is your legal joint account
business partner or family member next of kin to the deceased and
officially the bank will transfer the fund to your bank account within
seven working days in
accordance to our banking inheritance rules and fund claim regulation.

I will share 40% for you and 60% for me after the fund is transferred to
your bank account, we need to act fast to complete this transaction within
seven days. I will come to your country to collect my share after the fund
is transferred to your bank account in your country. I hope that you will
not disappoint me after the fund is transferred to your bank account in your
country.

Please I want you to send me your private phone number so that I can call
you to discuss more details on how we can proceed on this project

Waiting for your urgent response today
Yours sincerely

(FILL THIS FORM BELLOW PLEASE AND RESEND IT TO ME).
1) Your Full Name,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
2) Your Age,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
3) Marital Status,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
4) Your Cell Phone Number,,,,,,,,,,,,,
5) Your Fax Number,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
6) Your Country,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
7) Your Occupation,,,,,,,,,,,,,
8) Sex,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
9) Your Religion,,,,,,,,,
REPLY ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS.(jhorge.james@ig.com.br)

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