419 scam: "Jonathan Ukpabiao"<mail@tpg.com.au> From: Hon. Jonathan Ukpabiao

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jonathan Ukpabiao" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jukpabiao@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 06:34:39 +0100
Subject: From: Hon. Jonathan Ukpabiao

Attention,

It is my pleasure to write this letter to you to solicit for your mutual assistance in this beneficial business. I know that this message might surprise you on how I got your contact address? I got your contact address based on the search been made by my secretary, sorry it has to come this way due to the urgency of this matter.

I am Hon. Jonathan Ukpabiao, The personal adviser to the President Umaru Yar'Adua of Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN). I contact you for a personal consultation on what to with my funds that have been in Europe in a security firm. Amount involve is $46,300,000, so I solicit with your company for an investment in your country, which will be monitored and directed by your company but on my name.

This money has been out since October 4th 2008 in Europe so it will be my pleasure to go into investment with it. You know due to my position I can not front this money on my own, because is my share of awarded contract funds. In my position I am not meant to control this kind of money because of that I use the security power to have this out from my country.

I have all the entire documents that will Authorized you for the claim of this money into your company account for the investment scheme. Please if you know you can handle this kind of money if it's well invested, please get back to me with your telephone number and full details of your company so that I will call you for further discussion over this as soon as you can, but if you cant handle this please have this message with your self and do not let it out to someone else.

Thanks
Hon. Jonathan Ukpabiao

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