419 scam: "S Kilkoyne"<skilkoyne@cs.com> Hello, (Can We Work & Share This Together Please Comfirm) !

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- shannokilkoyne@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "S Kilkoyne" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <shannokilkoyne@aim.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:12:19 +0200
Subject: Hello, (Can We Work & Share This Together Please Comfirm) !

Hi,

My name is Lt. Shannon kilkoyne a member of the U.S. ARMY Task Force 38's B Company, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, Iraq.I would like to share some highly personal classified information about my personal experience and role which I played in the pursuit of my career, though you might be surprise to read this from a total stranger like me.

However, I will hold back certain information for security reasons for now until you have found the time to visit the website stated below to enable you have an insight into what I intend sharing with you for our benefits

(( http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/bbc-foreign-currency-worth-nearly-200m-has-been-found-in-a-baghdad-neighbourhood-the-us-military-say/ ))

(( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/27/pentagon-cant-account-for_n_660652.html ))

Please, confirm if you have visited the two sites then I will be more vivid and coherent in my next massage because I need to confide in someone on my findings as i urgently await your response. I will want your thoughts via my email urgently due to the fact that i am suppose to be in the USA with the last batch of troops that just left Iraq for the final evacuation but I was redeployed to Iraq under the Task Force 38's B Company that will end by this October 2011.

Thanks,
Lt. Shannon kilkoyne.

Reply to: shannokilkoyne@aim.com

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