419 scam: Samnom Saruth <sanoaruth@outlook.com> Greeting From Mr.Saruth,

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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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Samnom Saruth <sanoaruth@outlook.com>
Reply-To: so00123@foxmail.com
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:25:27 -0500
Subject: Greeting From Mr.Saruth,

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Greetings,

I am Mr. Samnom Saruth, Head of Internal Audit director of Phnom Penh
Commercial Bank Cambodia and a personal Accountant to a deceased
customer of our bank. It is with good spirit of heart I opened up this
great opportunity to you. This deceased client of mine shares almost
the same name as yours, who died as a result of heart-related
condition on 14 of November 2011. His heart condition was due to the
death of all the members of his family in the fukushima earthquake and
tsunami disaster on the March 11, 2011 in northeastern Japan where
they all lost their lives. More info
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110311-tsunami-earthquake-japan-hawaii-science-world-waves/ His draft account opened in my bank in 2004 by this our deceased client, a national of your country. He was an Engineer/business man here in Cambodia before his unfortunate death, leaving nobody as the next of kin of his account after his untimely
death.

The amount in this account is currently US$24,526,200.00 (Twenty Four
Million Five Hundred and Twenty Six Thousand Two Hundred United states
Dollars Only). I want to present you as the beneficiary of the
deceased. I will use my position and influence in our bank to make
sure they release this money to you for us to share. If I wait for
days and did not hear from you, I shall look for another person.

Kindly get back to me for more details.

Mr. Samnom Saruth
Executive Director
Phnom Penh Commercial Bank

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