419 scam: James Johnson <james.jarken@btinternet.com> YOU ARE BLESSED WITH THIS BUSINESS 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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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 fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- revjames.johnson2@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: James Johnson <james.jarken@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: revjames.johnson2@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:43:44 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: YOU ARE BLESSED WITH THIS BUSINESS DEAL

Dear Sir/ Madam,It is my warmest pleasure writing you this business letter with a view that you will accept my request and give me a positive response hence time is of essence.I am the payment officer controlling the whole of African zone for euro-maximedia lottery awards here in Africa.And by the virtue of my position and the power bestowed on me by the organisation, I hereby notify you that there's this won prize sum of (TEN MILLION EUROS) that is about to be returned to the company as unclaimed funds,I have decided to contact you about it.well if you know that you are interested in this business proposal, all I want from you is to stand as the winner of the won prize money in question,as this organization does not allow their staff to take part in any of this lottery competition, and moreso, this is also one of the layed down policy of the lottery company.Now the company has directed me to prepare the records of all pending won prize money to
the winners.(Unclaimed) Meanwhile, the winner of the said fund has been sent a notification information since 13th of febuary 2010, and uptill date there has not been any response from him, and the policy of the company states that if a notification is been sent to a winner after 21 working days without response from the beneficiary,then the money returns to the company as unclaimed funds. As the first category of the lottery winners, which is from total prize of( 100,000, 000.00 euros) shared among the tenth international winners in this category.All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 10 million names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe and North America,Asia,Middle East and Africa as part of International Promotions Programme which is being conducted annually,This fund is now deposited with a company here in Europe and inssured.Meanwhile, the prize money will be shared between you and I into 50%
each.Note that I have done my homework very well in our company as the payment officer/director controlling the whole of African zone for euromaximedia lottery awards, this transaction is safe and guaranteed 100% risk free.NOTE: If you know that you are interested in this business transaction, kindly contact me to enable me facilitate this business transaction with you.Please ensure to treat this matter in strict privacy as I protect my interest and job with the lottery company for now. Awaiting to hear from you asap. and please reply me back immediately if you know that you are interested in this business deal.God bless you and your family. Please reply to my personal email address: revjames.johnson2@gmail.com regards,from,(Rev.James Johnson)
payment officer/director
for euromaximedia lottery award,
African zone.

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