419 scam: Miss Cynthia Adams <acynthia1@kimo.com> GoBS Seitenempfehlung

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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 message is a orphan 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.
- acynthia1@kimo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Cynthia Adams <acynthia1@kimo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:21:40 +0100
Subject: GoBS Seitenempfehlung

Guten Tag!

Miss Cynthia Adams (acynthia1@kimo.com) empfiehlt Ihnen den folgenden Link:

http://www.go-bs.de//

Miss Cynthia Adams hat der Empfehlung folgenden Text hinzugefügt:
Hello Dear,

With hope that this mail reaches you in good condition of health, my name is Miss Cynthia Adams; I am an adopted daughter of late Dr. Jacob Adams a well known business man in Ivory Coast, who died on the 15th of August 2013, at the age of 72.

At the moment we have finalized with the funeral ceremony of my late father, presently our family has turned their back on me because I was adopted against their Wish, this is just because they are jealous of me and they do not want me to be a part of their family anymore and I do not WISH to go back to the Motherless Babies Home (orphanage) where my late parents adopted me, that is why i am contacting you today.

Because of the confidence my late father had in me before his death, he told me that he has a sum of Four Million U.S Dollars ($4,000.000.00) deposited in a Bank, and he made me to understand that he used me as his next of kin not minding my age, but because of my age; I will need your assistance to move the fund out from the bank for investment thereof over there in your country, as I am still a little girl of no financial experience, so you have to help me on this issue.

If you assist me to get this fund out from the bank, I will offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of the fund into your own bank account before starting the investment project.

I will be waiting to hear from you for more details; you can call me for direct discussion on this matter.

Yours Sincerely
Miss Cynthia Adams
002-254-647-2742

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