419 scam: Kevin Roberts <rk70373119@gmail.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:

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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million dollars" (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)
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
- "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- tnc.transmission@technologist.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Kevin Roberts <rk70373119@gmail.com>
Reply-To: TNC.Transmission@technologist.com
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 02:05:18 -0700
Subject:

My Dear Friend
Good mprning,

Thanks you, for your answer to my mail of yesterday.
I, am MR. KEVIN ROBERTS, from United Kingdom, I am friend to late
Pilot Lewis Tonkinson, from West Bromwich United Kingdom and was a
co-founder of Pinnacle Marketing Communications which has a registered
office in Caroline Street in the Jewelry Quarter.

Pilot Lewis Tonkinson and his wife Sally were flying home with their
son when their light aircraft smashed into woodland on 14 April 2016
and they die and left their six-year-old son. Am contacting you to
stand as one of the business associates to late Pilot Lewis Tonkinson,
because of his versatile in numerous business partnership globally as
no one could questioned.
I will like to present you as the his business partner so that we can
receive his fund and contract balance worth 3.8 million dollars (Three
million eight hundred thousand United States dollars) he left with a
bank here in USA.
I was his best before he died, all my effort to get in contact with
his relatives has been futile and I have been given a notice from the
bank that I have to contact the next of kin or business partners to
claim this fund before the end of the mandate or the fund gets
confiscated and transferred to treasury account of the bank as
unclaimed fund.
I want you to work with me to secure this fund for our mutual benefit;
All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see
this transaction through. I guarantee it will be executed under
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.
Upon your acceptance to this proposal, this transaction deserves
utmost sincerity and confidentiality till the fund gets transferred
into your account.
I await your urgent response indicating your interest.
View appendix for copy of passport for your perusal.
Best Regards,
Mr. Roberts Kevin
Email; TNC.Transmission@technologist.com

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