419 scam: "Kerry Mike"<mike.kerry@hotmail.co.uk> Business Investment

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Kerry Mike" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kerry.mike@gmx.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:50:33 +0100
Subject: Business Investment

Good day,

I am Mr.Kerry Mike,Associate Director of Tezin Swiss Bank, one of the World's Swiss Banks with over 1.2 Trillion GBP Capital Investment Funds.

Nevertheless, as Tezin Associate Director, I handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 3.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP) per annum on each of investor's Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made millions of Great British Pounds (GBP) from the investor's EMCRP and here by looking for someone to trust who can stand as an investor to receive the funds as annual Investment Proceeds from Tezin Swiss Bank.

All confirmable documents to back up this claim will be made available to you as soon as I receive your acceptance.prior to your acceptance.

Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities where the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 clearing houses without any hitch .Our sharing ratio will be 50-50 while expenses Shall be incurred and taken care of by both parties during the process of transaction.

In case you are interested, email me your direct telephone number,name, occupation, state and Country for discussion of this deal in further details.

Sincerely,

Associate Director

Kerry Mike.

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