419 scam: "Gates"<murasato@mail.kws.cc> Ref.No.

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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:
- ",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)
- "00,000.00" (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 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.
- gbillan81@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Gates"<murasato@mail.kws.cc>
Reply-To: gbillan81@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 15:49:26 -0700
Subject: Ref.No.

Kindly be informed that you have been officially gifted the sum of $5 MILLION USD From Bill Gates and Ex Melinda French Gates.

We hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to know why/how I selected you to receive a sum of $5,000,000.00 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate and please see the link below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Wikipedia
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported as of 2020 to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world, holding $49.8 billion in assets.
en.wikipedia.org

I BILL GATES and my Ex wife (Melinda French Gates) decided to donate the sum of $5,000,000 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the 10 lucky individuals all over the world from our $69 Billion USD I and my Ex Wife mapped out to help people. We prayed, searched over the internet for assistance and I saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you. Melinda, my ex wife and I have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see, as you could see from the webpage above, Iâ€™m not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to live. Although Iâ€™m a Billionaire investor, we have helped some charity organizations from our Fund and you can verify below.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/bill-gates-plans-to-give-away-virtually-all-his-113-billion-fortune.html

You see, after taking care of the needs of our immediate family members, before we die we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in Turro where Melinda underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimerâ€™s and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our pay-out bank of this charity donation. We have kept just 30% of the entire sum to ourselves for the remaining days because I am no longer strong and am sick and Iâ€™m writing to you from my office . And my ex wife and I will be traveling to Germany for a medical check up.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send me

Your full names.................

Your contact address................

Your personal telephone number...............

Occupation..........................

Country of Resident.......................

SEND YOUR ABOVE DETAILS TO gbillan81@gmail.com

So that we can forward your payment information across, we are hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your city. Please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many as you can once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

Healthy regards,
Bill Gates and Ex Melinda French Gates.

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