419 scam: "Barr. Lesley Jones" <davidmiles9122@gmail.com> ABANDONED FUND

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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.
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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr. Lesley Jones" <davidmiles9122@gmail.com>
Reply-To: cbarrjones2@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 22:47:26 -0800
Subject: ABANDONED FUND

Hi,

My name is Lesley Jones from London, United Kingdom. Am an independent
auditor and also financial adviser to MR. THOMAS BAHIA a Dutch
National from Germany who made a fixed deposit of $1,000.000 (One
million United States Dollars) in one of the banks in London, United
Kingdom and never show up again and I later discovered that he died
with his entire family members on a plane crash that occurred in Libya
on the 12th of May 2010 and below is a link for your view.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html

I want to present a foreigner as next of kin to late Thomas so we can
make the claim of the above mentioned amount and you can contact me if
you are interested so I can give you more detailed information about
this transaction. For the sharing of the money will be shared in the
ratio of 50% for me, 50% for you. Please keep this absolutely
confidential whether interested or not. Sorry if you received this
mail in your spam folder, is due to recent connection error from the
service provider. I await your response.

Regards,
Lesley Jones.
13 Fenchurch Street London EC3M 3BY, UK

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