419 scam: "Greg Jones (Esq)" <info.advocates11@aol.co.uk> GREG JONES (ESQ)

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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 next of kin scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- gregjones.advocates@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Greg Jones (Esq)" <info.advocates11@aol.co.uk>
Reply-To: gregjones.advocates@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:20:14 -0700
Subject: GREG JONES (ESQ)

London, United Kingdom.
06/06/2014.

ATTN: (CONFIDENTIAL).

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be treated as such. I am Greg Jones, a lawyer and solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. George XXXXX, hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil merchant in my country UK before he died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 28th of July, 2004.

I carried out this search on you and I am contacting you because you bear a similar last name with that of my late client and the further reasons are as follows:

Since the death of my client in July, 2004, I have written several letters to his embassy with an intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.

However, going by the recent publications by the Trustee bank in which my client deposited the sum of £8.7m (GBP), I fear a likely winding up proceedings in the coming months. I seek your consent therefore, to present you to the trustees as my client's next of kin since you bear a similar last name with him so that you can help repatriate the money to a foreign account and I promise a fair share between us at the end of the transfer.

Respond urgently with your telephone and fax numbers if you are very interested so I can appraise you with further details. I advise you respond to my official email address; gregjones.advocates@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:gregjones.advocates@yahoo.co.uk>

I assure you that I have all the requirements to execute this claim legitimately.

Best regards,

Greg Jones (Esq).

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