419 scam: "JEFFREY BAKER JR"<news@ospedaliprivatiforli.it> Re: Hello Dear

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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 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)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- +22577766593 (Cote d'Ivoire, 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.
- jeferrey@financier.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JEFFREY BAKER JR" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jeferrey@financier.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:41:33 -0400
Subject: Re: Hello Dear

Good Morning

Please it is my utmost desire to seek a confidential co-operation with you to actualize a project for our mutual benefit, and I sincerely hope you can keep it a secret to protect our both ends. Fleetingly, I am siting on some sizeable wealth (30 Million Dollars) which I stumbled upon during our just concluded December 2017 general auditing. These funds is momentarily abandoned in a dormant account belonging to a customer whom my preliminary investigation revealed perished in plane crash that killed over 160 persons. Momentarily, the bank is expecting any member of his family to come forward with our inheritance claim requirement(s) for the estate to be release to his family inline with the World Bank stipulated rules but till this moment no one has shown-up. I personally have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives since I stumbled upon this revelation.

What I wish to relate to you might be a smack of unethical practice but I want you to understand that it is only an outsider to the banking industry who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios; you should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. On this moment there is US$30 Million Dollars abandoned and forgotten in an account in our bank, and all this is needed to possess it is only but a term work, you and I because I have all the information as an insider and you have the same surname as the depositor which literally quality you as his relative . All I simply need to do is to list you in his bio-data form in our system as the listed heir and successor, and once that is done the rest will only be paper work and the money literally becomes ours to share.

I sincerely seek your consent to insert your name into his file in our system and you automatically become the next-of-kin and heir to the aforementioned estate, and once we back it up with paper-work the funds will be paid to you legally and legitimately stress, risk and hitch free. I have carefully mapped out the moralities for us to actualize this project under a legitimate arrangement to protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in my country when the fund is released and transferred to you. Please if you found yourself able to peddle this canoe with me contact me immediately with your most direct telephone number. Remain Bless.

Thank You
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Jeffrey Baker
Senior Executive, Vice President
BANK OF AFRICA - CÔTE D’IVOIRE Abidjan Plateau,
01 BP 4132 – Abidjan 01
Phone:+225-777-665-93
Fax:+225-540-707-02
Cell:+225-55-89-79-82
SwiftCode: AFRICIAB
Email: jeferrey@financier.com
Website: https://www.boacoteivoire.com/

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