419 scam: "DR soeung kheng"<soeungkheng70@gmail.com> THANKS FOR YOUR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION

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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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "DR soeung kheng" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <soeungkheng2013@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:43:41 +0700
Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION

Good Day, .

I have gone through your profile and decided to write to you. I am Soeung Kheng working with a Financial Firm here in Asia. There is an unclaimed cash/fund of our deceased customer from your country, due to unavailability of next of kin as the depositor died together with his wife and kids, leaving nobody behind to claim the fund.

The firm cannot release this fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased customer as indicated in our financial guidelines and laws but if nobody applies as next of kin, government will pocket the money and share it.

I will like to present you as the next of kin to claim the fund for us to share, before the period given by the Firm elapse and will provide all the needed information in our office to execute the project. You will be getting 40% of the total amount and 60% for me.

I am assuring you of a 100% risk free, and shall explain in details when I hear from you or reply to my mail. If you are interested, please get back to me for further details.

I am looking forward to your swift response.

Best Regards,
Dr Soeung Kheng

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