419 scam: Daniel Jones <helen2stone@gmail.com> Urgent Response ( From Daniel Jones )

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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 next of kin scam.
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.
- +447584769261

Fraud email example:

From: Daniel Jones <helen2stone@gmail.com>
Reply-To: djauddaniel101@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 09:28:03 +0100
Subject: Urgent Response ( From Daniel Jones )

Hello Dear,

I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge
you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to overseas
account(Â£30,000.000.00GBP) Thirty million Great British Pounds) from a
prime Bank here in London. I want to ask you, If you are not capable
to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable
and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new
Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can
serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me
till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing
in God that you will never let me down either now or in the future.

I am Mr. Daniel Jones, presently promoted to Auditor General in one of
the banks here in London. During the course of our auditing last week,
I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2000
and nobody has operated on this account again, after going through
some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if
I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.The owner of this account is an American and a great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost
his life in the plane, crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which
crashed on January 31 2000,
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261)

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Daniel Jones
Whatsapp/phone no: +44-7584769261

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