419 scam: "Mrs. Janet Avrez"<jesper@cowpunk.nl> You are the next of kin

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million 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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- janetavrezoffice@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Janet Avrez" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <janetavrezoffice@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:05:08 -0700
Subject: You are the next of kin

Dearest,

I am JANET AVREZ by name female and a banker in audit department with one of the leading banks here in manchester, United Kingdom.

I want to inform you of my late customer, Mr. Bilger, citizen of your country who deposited the sum of 9,000,000.00 (Nine Million United States Dollars) in our bank's headquarters North Carolina, United State of America in 2006. Sadly late Mr. Bilger died with his family in a crash. He died without any registered next of kin.

I was his account officer, last week the bank gave me the final mandate to present any relative of my late customer Mr. Bilger, for the claim of the fund or they will have the fund confiscated into the state treasury if not claimed.

Now after a long search to find any member of his family here in Manchester City to claim the fund yet couldn't. fortunately, I found you bearing the same last name with him. Please I would like you to help me out, so that I can present you as the relative and legal next of kin to my late customer at the bank headquarters in North Carolina, U.S.A. I have in my possession all the documents required to present you as his beneficiary next of kin.

To enable me start the process and remittance of the funds into your bank account successfully within 6 banking days, I need the following information from you by e-mail:

1Your full name: .
2.Your Address: .
3.Your Country: .
4.Your Private Mobile phone number :
5. Your Occupation:
6.Your passport id card.

Note that as soon as I receive this information from you, i will give you more details about this transaction for you to understand how it will work out as the funds transaction is 100% legal and risk free and I have some documents about the funds for you to be sure of what you are about doing. With the modalities I have worked out to make it possible for you to act as the next of kin to my late customer been the man who planned to get marry with me before he died. The account were this fund is located is permanently dormant for years and should be activated.

This transaction is 100% risk free having done all the underground works locally for the smooth transfer of the fund into your bank account within a shortest period. I advised that you should keep this transaction a top secret and rest all correspondence to e-mail and phone only, because I am occupying a sensitive position here in my bank and also this is a lifetime opportunity.

After the successful fund transfer to you, you will be given 50% while 50% will be for me. I want you to reply urgently to my email address so that I can give you further details how the fund transfer will be executed.

Awaiting your urgent response and Please do reply me on my private email (janetavrezoffice@yahoo.com) i will be available to respond to you as soon as i can

Yours Sincerely,

Miss. Stella Morris

N/B

Sorry if you received this letter in your spam, Due to recent connection error here in the country.

dont forget to reply me privately on (janetavrezoffice@yahoo.com)

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