419 scam: "Williams Afredsen"<www.@plum.ocn.ne.jp> COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON

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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.
- alfredsen.will00@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Williams Afredsen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alfredsen.will00@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:20:04 -0700
Subject: COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON

Hello ,

Compliment of the Season to you and your love ones. I am sorry for this interruption. I have no other way to reach you than this means, please accept my apology.

I am the international liaising Director of Commonwealth bank here in Melbourne Australia..In my department i discovered an abandoned sum which belongs to one of our foreign customer,U.S. Navy.His Deposit bond has this email address under his next of Kin and recipient of this fund,$16.2 Million in case of emergency.

This fund has been sitting in his domiciliary account for the past four(4) years without any form of transactions.I decided to send a routine notification to his forwarding address when i resumed office, but got no reply.On my further inquiries, i learnt that he was one of the American soldiers fighting in Syria, but unfortunately he was killed last three years by a road side planted bomb in Syrian boarder.

This money can never be released unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our guidelines and laws, but whereby nobody applies to claim this fund as the next of kin after five fiscal years, the bank's board of directors will usually divert the money and share as their Capital Interest".

I have just sent out this email in good faith without knowing if it will get to you or not.I only followed my spirit to make this move. Please should you receive this email, could you let me know what you think of this? I feel you may not be aware of this money in question,thus my contacting you.

However,if you are already aware of this fund($16.2million)and may be you have an attorney working towards it on your behalf, then i apologize for the interference. I only decided to contact you because i felt you might not be aware of this fund as it has been siting stagnant for long now.Until i hear from you.

If you think you will be interested,kindly get back to me immediately via private email address,(alfredsen.will00@gmail.com) for full details regarding this project,and so that we could proceed.Thanks,

Mr Williams Alfredsen

INTERNATIONAL BANKING LIASING OFFICER

A NEW OFFICE CREATED BY WORLD BANK TO HELP REDUCE FRAUDULENT AND MONEY LAUNDRY ACTIVITIES.

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