419 scam: "JON DOW"<crrkk200@yahoo.co.uk> REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASISTANCE

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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:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "hundred thousand 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)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447024045949 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "JON DOW" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <crrkk100@sifymail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:02:54 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASISTANCE

>From the Desk of: JON DOW
Director Wire Transfer Dept HSBC Bank London
Tel: +44-702-4045949. FAX: +44-700-600-2345
EMAIL: crrkk100@sifymail.com

REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASISTANCE

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am John Dow a (Director Wire Transfer Dept HSBC Ban London) I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. A foreigner, Late Abraham Benjamin Joubert, an oil Merchant/contractor with the Government of Britain, until his death some years ago after a brief illness in South Afrca, banked with us here at the HSBC BANK, and had a closing balance of USD$25.2M (Twenty-Five Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage here in Britain.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the HSBC Bank to get in touch with any of late Engr. Abraham Benjamin Joubert's next of kin (he had no known wife and children) that the management have agreed is concuding arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then besubsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition, which will further enhance the course of misunderstanding among us here. In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as late Engr. Abraham Benjamin Joubert's next of kin so that the fund, USD$25.2M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for pu

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via my personalTelephone Numbers Tel: +44-702-4045949 FAX: +44-700-600-2345 or e-mail address. crrkk100@sifymail.com furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, so that I can
forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation

Regards.

JON DOW
Director Wire Transfer Dept HSBC Bank London

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