419 scam: "Wood Forest Bank"<accounts@kdmarketresearch.com> Attn Beneficiary : Urgent Notification!!!

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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:
- "million us 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.
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.
- ifc-wbg@financier.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Wood Forest Bank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ifc-wbg@financier.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 20:42:38 -0700
Subject: Attn Beneficiary : Urgent Notification!!!

Attn Beneficiary:

We the Wood Forest Bank, wish to notify you that your unsent inheritance/compensation fund of ($7.5M) are currently being lodged into our Bank

in USA, because after the meeting held today with the Home Land Security and the (FBI) on the new payment method, an easy method of

transfer was initiated in other to have your huge unsent inheritance/compensation funds transferred via our telephone banking. This will enable

you escape the IMF against any transfer of fund above 2million us dollars.

This new payment arrangement is designed to help you get access to global telephone banking and complete transfer of fund without any delay.

Re-confirm your full name, address, occupation, your mobile phone and your ID to my personal email : (ifc-wbg@financier.com), so we can create your personal

telephone banking page, where you can instantly start making transfer via our telephone banking.

Thank you for banking with us

Admin.

Jim.

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