419 scam: "Suma"<tom.suma@hotmail.com> Can you be of help??? 18/5/2010

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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:
- "the consignment" (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)
- "consignment " (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 orphan scam.
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.
- tomandmum@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Suma" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tomandsuma@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:09:04 +0300
Subject: Can you be of help??? 18/5/2010

Hello dear,

Is my pleasure to writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use this opportunity to introduce myself well to you; I am Thomas Suma, the son of Late Kambi Suma of Sierra Leone who was killed by the rebel during the war.

I write you in respect of our consignment fund moved into the New York, US through the security company some weeks ago.

Right now the consignment is in New York, under the care of the delivery diplomat Mr. Paul Andrew, we want you to assist us to stand as our new beneficiary to receive the fund over there in your country. The amount in this consignment is $18 million U.S. Dollars which my late father deposited with the SECURITY COMPANY before his death.

This consignment was moved to New York to be handed down to our former beneficiary Mr. Carlos Padros, who agreed to receive this consignment in US on our behalf and also assist us to come over to the United States and further investment of the money into real estate which he agreed to but on arrival of the consignment in the US, our beneficiary started demanding for 60% of the money and that was never our initial agreement, so for that reason my mother and i did not agree anymore with him and the best thing is to stop the delivery as we can no longer trust a man like that who has many words.

Now we need someone that will assist us to receive these consignment as beneficiary as the security company has agreed to deliver to anywhere our new beneficiary may want it. We have all necessary documents are in our possession which i will send to you the moment i hear from you confirming your readiness because we want to move the consignment quickly out of the airport before we lose it and we need your help.

We are prepared to give you 20% of the money for your assistance as that was our initial agreement with Carlos Padros, before his change of mind due to greed.

Waiting you for your anticipated co-operation, in your reply indicate your physical address, telephone number and your passport and we shall respond back to you details. Please send your response through this email address: tomandmum@gmail.com or telephone number +233249853025 my mother and i will get back to you with details.

Best Regards,

Tom Suma and Mum

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