419 scam: Samnom Saruth <fred@boxology.net> 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 <fred@boxology.net>
Reply-To: <so00123@foxmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 18:15:42 +0300
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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