419 scam: "Mr.Thabiso M. Mokoena"<15151975@bk.ru> Many thanks for your feedback..

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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.Thabiso M. Mokoena" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <197511tm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 09:29:20 -0800
Subject: Many thanks for your feedback..

Dear .

Many thanks for your feedback. Our investor seeks to work with an individual like you who will promote the security of his funds through sound investment in your country.

Base on recommendation that you are capable to manage this investment, Then you will enter a fund management agreement with us and thereafter, these funds will be handed over to you for investments.

This implies that you will be assigned with exclusive rights to manage the related funds and that we will depend on you to provide investment advice and services and then execution of such projects that you may deem credible, including investing the funds in profitable area/Sector.

You will also have absolute responsibility to determine what locations to invest and what guarantees best serves the projects you adopt for investments. For these roles, the investor has offered to pay you 10% of the investment capital.

However, the height of your responsibility would be to ensure that whatever project you decide to invest will be viable enough to make profit at the end of the investment.

According to my client, The fund is available for investments and can be released to you once all the paper work is done.

Please advise your business profile in a returned email so we can present a simplified working agreement for your review and further discussions.

Best regards

Mr.Thabiso M. Mokoena

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