419 scam: "mish" <cvmisban6@outlook.com> (no subject)

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",000,000" (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)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mish" <cvmisban6@outlook.com>
Reply-To: malw127@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 06:53:53 +0200
Subject:

Dear Friend,

How are you today? My name is Misbahuddin i am from Indonesia. The Auditing and accounting section of (co-operative bank Indonesia).
I believe that I can trust you with the information am about to reveal to you. I decided to contact you based on, one of our late depositor is from your country.There is an abandoned sum of ($29 ,000,000,00 )Twenty-Nine million USA dollars that belongs to him. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his relation to come over and claim his money which he deposited in our bank.

The bank management has been searching his relatives to notify them about his deposit. But up till now we have not been able to trace any members of this family. The management can not release it unless somebody apply as his next of kin or relation as indicated in our banking guideline .But unfortunately we learnt that he died along with his family on the 26TH December 2004 Tsunami
disaster in Indonesia leaving nobody behind for the claim. Well, Since you are from the same country with the deceased customer we can easily make a deal with you. Therefore upon this discovery that i decided to inform you about this deal so that you will apply as the relation to the deceased customer since nobody comes for it.I have agreed to give you 50% of this fund and 50% for me.
With my influence, our bank will tender the necessary documents to
appropriate authorities,

Everything will be done legally, have no fear about this. Right now, I have all the copies of the documents relating to the fixed deposit made that you will file to back up this claim. All I require now is your honest cooperation to enable us make this claim and we have to do this within shortest time possible
Please whether you are interested or not, kindly do not expose this information to any one.

Best regards,
Misbahuddin

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