419 scam: "Mr.Chris Kenny"<mr.chris_kenny@yahoo.com.hk> Investment Partneship

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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: "Mr.Chris Kenny" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrchriskenny@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 09:55:23 -0700
Subject: Investment Partneship

For your kind Attention,

I am Mr.Chris Kenny.I seek your partnership for an investment opportunity in your country's economy.I need a trust worthy person/investor whom I can talk to on how to invest, why to invest, as well as sound financial planning advice.

Why I'm contacting you is to know if we can have a personal conversation. Whatever truth you may brief me will be highly recommended. Tell me more about your country, how good it will be to invest in your country,Such as buying of properties, or real estate and some tourist places or any profitable investment venture that will yield good profit.

I am certain it will be of great benefit to both of us, and I believe we can handle it together once we have a common understanding and mutual cooperation in the project implementation.email.Once you agree to this, we shall prepare an Equity Investment Agreement where we shall state the profit sharing pattern and all other conditions.Waiting for your response.

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Chris Kenny.

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