419 scam: Victor Jahlow <jahlowvictor@yahoo.com.ph> URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

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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:
- "million united states 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)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a orphan 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.
- paul.nelson26@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Victor Jahlow <jahlowvictor@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: vjahlow@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:20:30 -0600
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

Show Details FROM:Sule Ahmed TO:paul.nelson26@yahoo.com Message flagged Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:08 AM Greetings to you.

I guess you are fine and doing well.

I write to let you know my desires to contact you and to invest in your country; I am the first son of Dr. Abubakar Jahlow, who was the former Minister of Mines and Industry. My father had a bullet wounds by the rebels on his way traveling to the Capital city Freetown along with my sister. My sister died on the spot while (U.N) Peace keeping force rescued my father, he later died after some months.
Before his death he told me about the box containing Twenty Eight Million united States Dollars to look after my self and my Mother if anything happen to him. and shouldn't go back to Sierra-Leone. Why my father deposit the fund in the security company in Ghana is for safety of the funds.

Presently, my mother and I are here in Accra Ghana West Africa to notify the security company for the claims of the FUND, and we are in GHANA right now.Therefore we want you to partner with us, lecture us on how best we can invest this money in your country and as I told you we really wanted to buy a house when we come there. My father told me it is dangerous to invest this money in anywhere around this place to avoid prying eye, due to bad economy and political instability facing this side of African countries, that is why we want to invest in abroad.

For your foreign assistance I and my mother have agreed to offer 25% of the total amount of the money to you so you can be able to reimburse your self of the cost of helping us secure this fund and also investing it to a lucrative business. We have all the vital documents covering the deposited fund and the ownership.

NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have to keep this matter very confidential. More details will be given to you upon your response.

Yours faithfully,
Victor Jahlow and Mother

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