419 scam: "Jacques Hans"<wsdaviduk@gmail.com> Re: Re: Your Money Transfer.

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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:
- "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million 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)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jacques Hans" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <onlypaulharry@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:23:44 +0100
Subject: Re: Re: Your Money Transfer.

BARRISTER JACQUES HANS
Shammah Chambers & Associetes
Counselors At Law
Avocat 04 BP 551, Cotonou,
Industrial Quatier Des Elites,
République du Bénin

Attn: My Friend,

I am contacting you with a regards to my late client last wish from where I got your contact.

I am a legal practitioner and sollicitor to a woman who is into Gold and diamond business with office in Ghana and Republic of Benin. She was my client till 28/02/2015, when she died of Lungs cancer in the United Kingdom Hospital. This woman have a deposit sum of $5.8 Million Dollars with a bank here which she left behind without surviving family members but you as the heirs .

Before her death last year 2015, she gave me your contact that you should be made her next of kin since she have read about you from the internet, she told me that God ask her to entrust this funds to you and since her death, I have been waiting to hear from you until on monday when the bank ask me to produce her next of kin within 14 working days as her lawyer or the funds will be declare unclaim and confsicate that is why I am contacting you today as it may come to you as a surprise..

I also found out that some internet element has abused the legality of this humble letter so in case you may have receive similar letter from those scammer please forward it to me as I wait to hear from you urgently as to enable me give you further details..

Anticipating your message as soon as possible.

Sincerely
Barr. Jacques Hans(Esq.)

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