419 scam: "Jose Veloso"<lanwenchao@live.cn> Re:Dear Friend.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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.
- jvelose2@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jose Veloso" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jvelose2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:34:56 +0100
Subject: Re:Dear Friend.

Dear Friend.

I have a business proposal for you over here in Manila Philippines which you can benefit from. It is about your “Name”. I am Jose Veloso, working with Philippine National Bank Limited. As an audit manager, I am making this proposal to you with respect to the death of late Enginner Mr. Gentian, whom I was his account officer.

He died in a car accident here in the Philippines. and he is a citizen of your Country who was my customer until death, leaving some amount of USD $17,500,00.00 (Seventeen million five hundred thousand dollars ) and other house properties with gold here in the bank.

After unsuccessful attempts to locate their relations, I decided to contact you, and see how best we can assist each other to repatriate those funds. kindly contact me through my email address: ( jvelose2@gmail.com ) or send me your email address to enable me to send you more details about this transaction.

Regards,
Jose Veloso.

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