419 scam: "Tomas K. Kamprad"<15151975@bk.ru> 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: "Tomas K. Kamprad" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <197511mmt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 03:35:23 -0800
Subject: thanks for your feedback.

Greetings Dear,

I am Tomas Karlsson- Kamprad, from Smalad- Sweden. I am a grandson of Late Mr. Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea Furniture, who died on the 28th January 2018 at the age of 91 years old.

During his days on earth, Mr. Ingvar Kamprad is the founder/CEO of Ikea Furniture and when he was sick, he drew my attention to a deposit he made with Swedbank, Stockholm- Sweden but warned that I should invest outside Sweden and that I can only access the funds when I am 21years old, of-which I have clocked 21years on the 30th March 2020. Now that I have attained the stipulated age and the court has granted my request to access the fund, I hereby seek your cooperation to partner with me in this project. If you are interested, you then contact me for more details and the way forward.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Tomas Karlsson- Kamprad

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