419 scam: "KIM WILLIAMS"<kimwilliams3268@yahoo.com.ph> URGENT ATTENTION

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "KIM WILLIAMS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kimwilliams098@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:05:16 -0400
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION

Dear Sir/Ma,

Greetings to you, my name is Dr. Kim Williams a citizen of the United States of America, I lived most of my life in the USA, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia until I became ill and was diagnosed of cancer, and then I traveled back to the USA for treatment, but as it is right now I don’t see any chance of survival, this is why I have decided to donate all I have left to charity instead of continuing to waste it all to different physicians and hospitals.

I want to donate $8,500,000.00 to charity and I would like you to help me distribute it, I don’t have to know you to trust you because of my condition of health, but you need to know that life is a gift and if you misuse it you will answer for it in the presence of God.

Let me know if you or your company can assist in the distribution of this gift to the less privileged, I will like to offer $500,000.00 of it to you for your assistance, send to me your contact details such as listed bellow.

INDIVIDUAL NAME..................................................
COMPANY NAME IF ANY......................................................
MOBILE TEL N0.........................................................ADDRESS...................................................
AGE........................................................
OCCUPATION:.....................................................................

Get back to me as soon as you received this letter for details of the Bank the fund was deposited while I was still in London.

Respectfully Yours,

Dr. Kim Williams

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