419 scam: "Vicki Clarkson" <mkronman@dreamscape.com> Your $15million dollars payment

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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)
- "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
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.
- milljackie24@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Vicki Clarkson" <mkronman@dreamscape.com>
Reply-To: milljackie24@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:56:08 -0700
Subject: Your $15million dollars payment

COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
ADDRESS: 431-439 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

This is to inform you that your details information has been confirmed with the instruction and approvals of the World Bank, IMF and the Supreme High Court of this country and that of your state to handle your fund payment of $15,000,000,00 dollars, a final approval which we had been waiting for before we contact you was granted on Friday the 24th of February 2023 from all the parties involved.

Your funds have been transferred to commonwealth bank of Australia so henceforth this bank has been permitted to get in touch with you and transfer the funds to you as soon as possible and we have been given the final authority to transfer out this sum of $15,000,000,00 to you.

You are required to forward with immediate effect the following information to enable us carry out this transaction to the fullness within the next couple of days, forward as a matter of urgency the following:

FULL NAMES:
HOME ADDRESS.
DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER:
GENDER/AGE:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:
MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION:

Send all your details to the Chief Financial Officer of Commonwealth Bank of Australia to the information below because he is in-charge of the payout to you. His info below,

Mr. Alan Docherty
Email: milljackie24@gmail.com

We await your urgent response
Thank you for chosen commonwealth bank of Australia
Best Regards Vicki Clarkson
Secretary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia

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