419 scam: "Christine Kerrilson"<mail@bigpond.com> Private & Confidential

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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:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Christine Kerrilson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <christine.kerrilson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:08:40 +0100
Subject: Private & Confidential

NatWest Bank plc. 501, Silbury Boulevard Saxon Gate East, Milton Keynes MK9 3ER (UK) Compliment of the day, My Namae is Christy Kerrilson,Treasury Officer,Natwest Bank(UK)It is my modest obligation to write you this letter in regards to an account opened with Natwest in 2000 and until this year 2015,nobody has operated on this account,after a board meeting, myself and my colleague has decided to make you the beneficiary to this funds. After going through some old files in the records,we discovered that if I do not remit this money out of natwest urgently it would be forfeited to the government for nothing.
The owner of this account is Late Mr. Ronnie Wong,a foreigner and a miner at Mount Resources Ltd who died since 2000,and no other person knows about this money or anything concerning it and also, there is no beneficiary to this funds(3,000,000.00 GBP). We shall give you all required documents to enable this money be released to your account and then we can have a 50/50% each with you and we may decide to use some part of it for charity work instead of it getting forfeited to the government for no reason. Please be rest assured that this transaction is risk free and 100% guaranteed.I need your full co-operation and trust to move this money. Get back to me for more info. Please confirm(Full Name-Address-Mobile Number) Regards, Christine Kerrilson

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