419 scam: "FROM TELEX AND TELEGRAPHIC MONEY WIRE TRANSFER SECTION"<jhnabhfbnabh@ymail.com> FROM TELEX AND TELEGRAPHIC MONEY WIRE TRANSFER SECTION

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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: "FROM TELEX AND TELEGRAPHIC MONEY WIRE TRANSFER SECTION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jhnabh@ymail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:27:21 -0500
Subject: FROM TELEX AND TELEGRAPHIC MONEY WIRE TRANSFER SECTION

ATTN:

The PRESIDENCY Federal Government of Nigeria has already SIGNED the
release and payment of your Accumulated sum of $7 MILLION - USD and
the FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA, PLC is ready to pay you your $7 MILLION -
USD, but some of our directors are using your MONEY to run their own
PERSONAL BUSINESS, but now i will help you COMPLETE the TRANSFER
PROCESS to YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

WE have decided to assist you get your $7MILLION - USD TRANSFERRED to
any BANK OF YOUR CHOICE, it is risky but we have to do it, once the $7
MILLION - USD is credited to your bank account and you confirm it,
make sure you re-transfer the $7 MILLION - USD to another account
immediately you confirmed the receipt of the $7MILLION - USD in your
account, I know why I want it this way, to avoid been traced very
soon.

Note: If I assist you to do the TRANSFER and you receive your
$7MILLION - USD successfully in your bank account, you will give me $2
MILLION - USD of the $7MILLION - USD for helping you transfer your
$7MILLION - USD to your bank account successfuly.

If you want me to go ahead, let me know as soon as you get this mail,
so that I can include your name in the next PAYMENT SCHEDULE and make
the transfer without further delay. It might be in the next 6 months
that they will find out this transaction, I expect you by then that,
you must have re-transferred the fund into another account, because
once the transaction is done it will be deleted from the computer
payment database system so that the fund cannot be traced by the
NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT as quickly as possible.

Yours sincerely,

JOHN ABOH,
DIRECTOR OF TELEX OPERATIONS.

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