419 scam: Peter Mongar <xyz@tyu4.onmicrosoft.com> MUTUAL BENEFIT

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "petermorgan@englandmail.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "immediately.petermorgan@englandmail.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Peter Mongar <xyz@tyu4.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <petermorgan@englandmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:32:18 +0530
Subject: MUTUAL BENEFIT

With All Due Respect,

As a senior staff in file keeping / Auditor General section of the foreign remittance department of finance firm here in England. Am in search for a reliable partner to champion this transaction. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of (One Million Two 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. : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since no information after his death, I have been expecting the next of kin to come over and claim this money because I cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. Discovery this i decided to contact you and release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody to make this claim, 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 non foreigner cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I will give you 40% 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 50 % would be for me. There after I and my family will visit your country.

Please if you are interested kindly respond by replying to my private email address,petermorgan@englandmail.com to enable me ascertain your capability of handling this business. Trusting to hear from you immediately.petermorgan@englandmail.com
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Peter Mongan

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