419 scam: "Mr.Foo Boon Seng"<help@kocm.co.kr> For Our Mutual Benefitii

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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.
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.
- fooboonseng12@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Foo Boon Seng" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fooboseng1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 05:04:07 -0700
Subject: For Our Mutual Benefitii

I am Mr. Foo Boon Seng, the Head of Accounting Audit Department of Cathay United Bank of Cambodia. In my department in the Bank where I work, I discovered a sum

of US$25.5 Million In an account that belongs to one of our foreign deceased customers, a billionaire Business Mogul Late Mr.Moises Saba Masri, a Jew from

Mexico who was a victim of a helicopter crash since 2010 which resulting to his death and his family members.You can see more information about Saba Masri

Mr.Moises unfortunate end accident on this,

website-link below: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3832556,00.html

Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come forth for the claim but nobody has done that SINCE 2010. I personally have been unsuccessful

in locating the relatives,Which the Board of directors are planning to share this funds among them-self. Which I have good heart to use this funds to help

the poor and the motherless home. I seek your consent as my foreign business partner in this transaction to present you as the next of kin/Beneficiary to

the diseased, so that the funds will be transferred to your account in your country. Also this transaction is 100% free risk, because I have all the legal

document with me to make this transaction possible, and the funds we be share 50/50%

I want to use part of my funds to help orphanage and motherless child home and I don't know about you. Please Provide me the following few information about

you, as we have few days to run it through.

Your Full Names And Contact Number to proceed.

I will furnish you with more information on this business transaction once I get

your respond back asap.

Best Regard

Mr. Foo Boon Seng

Email:fooboonseng12@gmail.com

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