419 scam: Mr.Jean Dossou <jean_dossou70@yahoo.fr> We need mutual understanding to effect this deal.

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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:
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- +22996280330 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- dss_jn@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr.Jean Dossou <jean_dossou70@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: dss_jn@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:12:17 -0500
Subject: We need mutual understanding to effect this deal.

>From Desk Of Jean Dossou
Bill And Exchange Manager
Banque Bisc. (B.s.i.c).
Tel:+229 96-280-330
Dear .
Sir,I am Mr Jean Dossou, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance Department of (Banque Bisc. (B.s.i.c). I called you regards this transaction and I am also writing to seek your interest over a transaction. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15.6m(Fifteen Million Six Hundred Thousand United State of America Dollar) .In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash on the 26th of Dec.2003. Since we got information about his Death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Benin Indigine cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, Upon receipt of your response to this mail indicating your willingnes towards this venture, I will send to you by fax or email the space-man copy of the application as the first step toward this deal which you will use to apply to our bank as the next of kin to the decsaese.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch
free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter with my Altenative Email Address below; dss_jn@yahoo.com Call me once you are thorugh reading it and find out that you are instreted over it.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Jean Dossou.
+229 96-280-330.

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