419 scam: "Wesley Jones"<wesleyjones@yahoo.com> LET ME TRUST 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:

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: "Wesley Jones" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <army_wesleyjones@inmail24.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:37:33 -0800
Subject: LET ME TRUST YOU

From:Engineer Wesley Jones,
2nd Battalion,
25th Marine Regiment Patrols.
Anbar province,
Iraq.

Good day and compliments, I know this letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise. I am a militery engineer Wesley Jones, serving in the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment which Patrols the Anbar province of Iraq.I am among the remaining Fifty Thousand Soldier in Iraq.

We will be here till next year to repaire all the mechineries damaged during the crises so I am desperately in need of assistance and I havesummoned up courage to contact you. I am presently in Iraq. I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $6,580,000 (Six Million Five Hundred
And Eighty Thousand US Dollars) to the States or any safe country, as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care until I complete my service here.

I would hold back certain information for security reasons for now until you have found time to visit the BBC website stated below to enable you have an insight into what I intend sharing with you.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm.

Get back to me having visited the above website to enable us discuss in a more clarifying manner to the best of your understanding,also send to me the following data of yours.

Thanks,

YOUR FULL NAME.........
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.........
YOUR IDENTIFICATION..................
YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ..............
YOUR OCCUPATIONS ..............

Respectfully,

Engineer Wesley Jones.
2nd Battalion,
25th Marine Regiment Patrols
Anbar province, Iraq

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