419 scam: "Leng Shek Mooi"<lengshekmooi@aol.com> Associate Request!

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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.
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.
- shekmooileng@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Leng Shek Mooi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <shekmooileng@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:17:33 +0930
Subject: Associate Request!

Hello:

I am Leng Shek Mooi an underwriter with Golden China brokage company Malaysia.

Have contacted you with the hope of getting you to act as trustee in clearance of $40million fixed income deposit and to subsequently

invest the funds.

You earn 20% as your commission for acting as my trustee.

I will urgently need your full names,address and phone number to regularize on the funds as the new beneficiary with the bank where the funds are presently domicile.

Note that the fixed income deposit has to be cleared before the ending of this quarter of the financial fiscal year 2012.

Ensure to be honest with me when the funds are paid to you and remit my share to my Swiss bank account below

ABN AMRO Bank

          Postfach

          8022 Zürich

          Switzerland

Tel: (+41.1) 631 41 11

Fax: (+41.1) 631 41 81

Acct # name Leng Shek Mooi.

Acct #          56097327864

Swift code: ABNACHZZ80A

Will be quick to reassure you that I have a due probate as the underwriter of the funds to present a new beneficiary ,so as to inform you the transaction is legal and the funds will be cleared without a breach of the law leaving your personality intact.

A copy of my international passport is attached along with this email as a confidence building measure.

The funds will be cleared within 7 banking days once your details is regularized and approve as the new beneficiary.

Looking forward to working with you.

Sincerely,

Leng Shek Mooi

shekmooileng@yahoo.com

Golden China brokage company

Ground & 1st Floor Boulevard Complex, Lot 2528,

Jalan Boulevard Utama Boulevard Commercial Center 98000 Miri Sarawak Malaysia

PH: +603 2178 4466

DL: +60166940290

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