UK: Victim was scammed by dating, 419 and black money scam
58-year-old Philip Hunt met a Nigeria girl at a dating site, believed in her 419 scam story (to inherit $2.9m USD), and was finally wiped-out in a Black Money scam by the same gang. This appears to be well thought-out:
1) Dating site as the entry, initiation, or pickup. (easier than blatant 419 scam mail)
2) Create interest/excitement of inheriting large sum of money.
3) Using black money scam to milk the victim dry in a single payment.
They showed him how to use a liquid (see our past videos), to change blank paper into money. This is Bull Shit and a scam. Whatever it can do its no better than photocopying your own currency and calling it “cash”. So don’t get too excited over such nonsense.
Philip Hunt committed suicide after losing over £80,000.
An inquest in Hull heard that at around 9.30pm on Thursday, August 13, last year, 58-year-old Philip Hunt, of St Catherine’s Court, was struck by a train in Hessle.
A post mortem examination revealed he had suffered multiple injuries and that his death was “instantaneous”.
The jury took just 15 minutes to return a unanimous verdict of suicide to the coroner Geoffrey Saul.
A spokesman for British Transport Police said Mr Hunt had “insurmountable debts” and was the victim of a common scam known as the Nigeria Letter or 419 Fraud.
The inquest heard he had been targeted by someone posing on an online dating agency as a Nigerian woman called Rose, in December 2008.
Mr Hunt told his ex-girlfriend Lesley Smith – who gave evidence at the inquest – that “Rose” had promised him a share of her father’s estate if he could help her get 2.9-million US dollars into the country.
Ms Smith said Mr Hunt – who had worked as a cargo officer for DFDS Tor Line, Immingham, for the last 14 years – had sent her a text in January last year, saying: “There are amazing things happening in my life”.
She told the inquest: “He told me that this lady needed to come to England with this case of money to be able to convert it into usable money.
“He retrieved a suitcase from City Airport in London and under instruction went to a hotel room and waited there.”
The inquest was told by British Transport Police that he was met by two men, who revealed the case was full of blank paper.
They showed Mr Hunt how they could “turn one of them into a 100 dollar bill” with the use of a liquid solution.
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i have been sent an email two days ago saying that i have inherited a large sum of dollars by the late philip hull and that i should reply to the email address given with my name, address, occupation. is this a scam/con? what will happen if i reply? has anyone else had this email sent to them?
send me an email with the ful details
Do not replay.Its a scam.Mostly this are scammers of the Nigerian connection. They will show you false documents which u will take as real. The German and the Swiss autorities area already investigating behind them. Do you want to make a favor to yourself? Delete this mail and ingore. Once you speak a single word to them, they will disturb you all the time. Forget, ignore and delete it.
Why should a Nigerian having tons of money want YOU to take the money? Silly isn’t it? Yet so many are so easily conned. Really funny. They did try to con me once, and I go along as is I’m so vulnerable, but they can’t get me in the end! Hehehe…