419 scam: "Mrs. Santos R. Cardenas"<mrsantos@ymail.com> INVESTMENT

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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: "Mrs. Santos R. Cardenas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrssantos@ymail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:16:32 -0800
Subject: INVESTMENT

Greetings,

I am Mrs Santos R. Cardenas, credit accounts officer of Land Bank, Central
Luzon - PAMPANGA Branch, Philippines. I handle all our and secretly
extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on
each of the Investor's Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made over $9.2M
from Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will
stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Investment Proceeds.

Brief history of funds: I have more than 158 Corporate Investors attached
to my portfolio whose Capital Investment Funds are being managed and
administered by me. This Capital Investment Funds has a value of over
US$22Billion net. The US$22B is been used for trading in Stock Market,
Crude Oil and Lending with Profit Returns. Every end of year, each
corporate investor is expected to receive interest from his total
Investment Capital Funds. However, I make an excess of 1.2% from the
Investor's Investment Capital Funds annually which have exceeded our
targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds. This extra of 1.2% from
the 21.2% is been retained by me as my personal profits for managing the
Capital Investment. However, I cannot claim these funds without presenting
someone to stand as an Investor otherwise our establishment will convert
the funds into the company's treasury. This is why I have come to you for
the deal to take place.

Get back to me for more details if you know you can handle this.

Kind regards,

Mrs. Santos R. Cardenas

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