419 scam: "Katherine Johnson"<angelkaty.johnson101@outlook.com> FYI (Highly Classified Information)

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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:
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
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.
- angelkaty.johnson@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Katherine Johnson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <angelkaty.johnson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:19:39 -0300
Subject: FYI (Highly Classified Information)

Good day,

I am aware that this letter has come to you as a surprise as we have not met before or handled any business deal in the past. Nevertheless, I have contacted you with good faith and genuine intentions, and I hope I can trust you with this Inheritance Opportunity which I explain below.

I am Katherine Johnson, an attorney. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to my late client who died in a car accident with his wife and only two children in London United Kingdom on the 16th of January 2008 and Left behind a large deposit of money in a bank here in Europe (US$42M).

The bank contacted me, as his attorney to provide his Next of Kin to my late client and I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since both of you from the same nationality gives us the advantage to execute the transferring of the estate to your name as the legal beneficiary / next of kin without hitch.
Please get back to me on my private email: angelkaty.johnson@yahoo.com for further details to enable us discusses the sharing ratio of the funds.

To facilitate the process of this transaction, kindly reconfirm the following to me

Your full name
Telephone and fax numbers,
Address,
Age,
Marital status,
Occupation

Please promise to keep every bit of this transaction very confidential and urgent because the bank have just informed me that the fund deposit will be cancelled by 31ST of MAY 2013 as the fund agreement reads from when my client deposited the fund.
Expecting to hear from you soon.

Best regards
Katherine Johnson
Reply to: angelkaty.johnson@yahoo.com

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