419 scam: peter panduko <peterrey2010@gmail.com> Nest of kin

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin 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.
- addresspeterrey2010@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: peter panduko <peterrey2010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: peterrey2010@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:25:46 -0700
Subject: Nest of kin

Dear Friend,

Compliment of the season

I am Mr. Peter Ben. Panduko a senior staff in file keeping section of the
foreign remittance department of Bank DKI Jakarta Indonesia. I got your
email id in the net during a desperate search for a reliable partner to
champion this transaction. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of
$850,000. US dollars (Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand US Dollars). In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr. Andreas Schranner
who died along with his entire family in a plane crash. Crash Website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting the next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that i
decided to contact you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and i don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remains
Unclaimed after nine years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an Indonesian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I will give
you 30% of this money as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 10 % will be assumed for expenses incurred during the
business and 60 % would be for me. There after I and my family will visit
your country.

Please if you are interested kindly respond by sending me your address, full
names, and telephone numbers including your business/occupation to my
private email addresspeterrey2010@yahoo.com to enable me ascertain your
capability of handling this business.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Peter Ben. Panduko

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