419 scam: "Yahoo Account Administrator" <nfo@kf.com.sg> Dear Yahoo Account Owner

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Yahoo Account Administrator" <nfo@kf.com.sg>
Reply-To: maintainanceunitdept@w.cn
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:12:49 +0800
Subject: Dear Yahoo Account Owner

Dear Yahoo Account Owner

This mail has been sent automatically by a program on mail Administrative center which periodically checks the size of mail in box, during our regularly scheduled accounts maintenance and verification procedures,we are temporarily limiting and restricting your account access the program is run automatically to ensure no user in box grows too large, you will be unable to receive new emails before this mail was sent, you are currently running on 20.9 GB, you have exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB. To re-set Account immediately to Re activate Account. SPACE on our Database prior to maintain mail, you are to reply simply providing us the below information:

E-mail (________________________________)
User name/ID (___________________________)
Current Password (__________)
Retype Password (___________)

From this point you will be unable to receive new email as it will be returned to the sender, provide the above information to enable us help reset your mail immediately.

NOTE: Your mail Account Expires in Three (3) Days. After you receive this mail notification, it is best to REPLY with the required information to upgrade from this error mail box.

Thank you for your cooperation.
mail Desk System Administrator

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam