419 scam: "Mr. Henry O James" <ofhhic1@yahoo.com> Inheritance--

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Henry O James" <ofhhic1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: hjo19000@outlook.com
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:57:01 -0700
Subject: Inheritance--

Dear Friend,

I am Henry O. James the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance department in a Bank. Actually, I have a customert (a contractor) who executed a contract for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. This corporation control and manages the petroleum industry in the country. This my customer, Mr. Yu Wang, an Asian and two of his colleagues died through air crash on June 6, 2012 in Lagos Nigeria which claimed the lives of all passengers and crew, 153 in all perished.

The crashed Dana air line had reg. Mark. 5N-RAM. His contract number is NNPC/FGN/0431/PH/REF/2011 and the amount is USD35.5M. This contract is turn around maintenance of Port Harcourt refinery Nigeria. He had received his fund after commissioning of the project and securely parked USD20,500,000.00 in United Bank for Africa and the Deposit Certificate documents firmly kept in our bank hoping to travel back from Abuja to pick up the funds before his tragic death.

I have searched for his next of kin to hand him over the document but to no avail. I therefore seek your permission to use you as the next of kin to Mr. Yu Wang, and I will legally transfer the next of kinship to you by

ensuring that documents are changed to your name as the rightful beneficiary of this fund.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on your return email the following information for the transfer in your favor.

1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone number.
Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus;
1. I as the Originator of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable Fund.
2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable Fund.

Most importantly, CONFIDENTAILITY as what I saw as the life wire to the success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be emulated between you and me. You have to use this media to promise me that you will not in

anyway expose the content of this transaction to anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-Workers.I will also want you to send your reply as soon as you get this mail to enable us discuss on the modalities and processes for success of this transaction. Thanks for your understanding.

Kindly view below site of the plane crash,

http://naijagists.com/dana-plane-crash-victims-ncaa-releases-names-pictures-of-recovered-bodies/

I wait for your response.

Henry James

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