419 scam: "Mr. Jack Brian."<mrjackbrian@outlook.com> Re: Urgent Response

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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:
- "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
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.
- mr.jackbrian@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Jack Brian." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrjackb@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:15:37 -0400
Subject: Re: Urgent Response

Dear,

I came to you with this transaction with ultimate aim of making both of us to be good partners in progress in order to realize this God given opportunity that has just called our both ways.

I am seeking your collaboration on the claim and joint utilization of a reasonable sum of money that has existed unclaimed since the year 2009, this sum is payment to a foreign contractor for a contract he executed with my organization in the same year but ever since this payment was made and the death of this contractor as a result of neurological masquerade of intravascular lymphomatosis, the management of the bank has expected the relative of this late contractor to lay claim on this fund but since the year 2009 this year 2015 (6Years) the payment is still lying with the Bank.

With the outright sell of my organization to Dutch shell, which has been concluded, I deem it necessary that is the appropriate time to work in collaboration with a foreigner on the claim of this fund and this is crux of my contact with you so that we can work together on the process, I want to assure you that this money has nothing to with the Government it is a contract payment that legally belongs to an individual that has been confirmed dead.

Please contact me on my private email: mr.jackbrian@yahoo.com for step details.

I await your urgent response,

Mr. Jack Brian.

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