419 scam: "Mr. Cardin Raymond"<mail@kolkataestates.com> Re: Good Day

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million pounds" (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)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- lraymond.2010@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Cardin Raymond" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lraymond.2010@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:30:54 +0100
Subject: Re: Good Day

Re: Good Day

Good Day,

Greetings, I am Mr. Cardin Raymond, the Representative of Russian multi billionaire Mr. Mikhail Gutseriyev's, the former owner of Russneft Oil Company in Russia, he is one of Russia's most successful businessmen, with a personal fortune estimated at $3bn. Rusneft, Founded in 2002, was smaller than Yukos You can catch more of the story on this website:

http://www.kommersant.com/p765407/r_1/Russneft/

http://robertamsterdam.com/2008/10/the_extradition_of_mikhail_gutseriyev/

By 2006 it was producing 293,000 barrels of crude oil a day and making profits of $1bn a year. Rusneft's assets and property have now been frozen, with prosecutors accusing that my Client of owing $800m in Taxes. Mr. Putin's government is "illegally" forcing him out of the company using trumped-up tax claims, this whole problem started when my client had conflict with the Kremlin and the reluctance to sell his company, which made it a collision course with the Kremlin by buying some of the embattled oil company Yukos' assets shortly before it was declared bankrupt.

As a result of the allegation, all our accounts were frozen and properties confiscated except for a profiling amount of £10.5 Million Pounds in cash, properly insured and sealed under the holding financial institution, which my client stashed with a depository in Europe for our future up keep in the case of such matters and now that he is currently seeking refuge in a very confidential location, he asked me to source for a God fearing individual who will stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum and also make immediate preparations to relocate us once the funds are secured.

For your assistance in embarking on this task for us, you will receive 30% of the total funds once the transaction is completed.

If you know you can do this, contact me so that I can furnish you with more details but if my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.

Thank you very Much,

Regards,

Mr. Cardin Raymond

NB: Do contact me through this secure email: lraymond.2010@hotmail.com

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