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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Ashikaga" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <etsuko_ashikaga@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:48:00 +0700
Subject: best wishes to you and family

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the season and my best wishes to you and family, I apologize if the contents here under are contrary to your moral ethics, but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal.

My name is Mr. Ngorn Bunpa, am a Cambodian and a bank maHello Dear,
Good day, how are you today hope healthy? Please my English speaking is not very
good, but i can write better than to speak.
I am ETSUKO Ashikaga, 29 years old female writing from Home Center Kohnan, Koto
Fukagawa (Tokyo) Japan. I am single and worked as the general caretaker to Mr.
Masamichi Kazama, late Mr. Kazama, his a banker and real estate developer living
in Fukushima Japan but died during the tsunami disaster (earthquake) in
Fukushima Japan, because i am the closes person that work with late Mr. Kazama
before his death, i was contacted by his Attorney Mr. Motoo Noguchi, the
Attorney is a very nice man, he work with United nations and also representing
my late boss.

The Attorney told me about Mr. Kazama deposit fund US$22,600,000.00 in Cambodian Bank
and he advice me to provide the next person to claim the fund since i am the
closes person, so I immediately make contact to know about Mr. Kazama family but
i was told that most of his family died during the tsunami disaster, but only
one of his son survive and very young, his name is Thanh Van Kazama, 8 years
old. Please I would really want you to help stand as the next person and claim
the fund, upon your interest to assist the little boy future, we shall discuss
about your benefit. Also if you do not understand my english kindly check here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/10/japan-lost-money-safes-cash_n_847243.html to read more to understand
I am waiting to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Miss ETSUKO.
nager with May-Bank Cambodia, am as well an account officer to a deceased customer of our bank, we lost this customer in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_In...ean_earthquake and his account of US$19.761 million with us has been unclaimed due to unavailability of a next of kin/relatives to claim his estate.

In accordance with the escheat laws in Cambodia as a kingdom, the board of directors of the bank met forth night ago and resolved to turn the estate of the deceased over to Government having waited for too long without the deceased relatives/next of kin surfacing property and if this is done, invariably, the funds will end up to become Government property and it is as a result of this that am moved to contact you considering the fact that you share almost the same name with the deceased.

In view of this, I am seeking your cooperation and understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enable us claim the inheritance before the period given by the Nation Bank elapse. If you are interested and in agreement with me, get back to me quickly and we will proceed immediately without your presence here in Cambodia, and be rest assured that it is risk free project and the proceedings will be shared 50% each once the fund are repatriated into your account anywhere in the world.

Please reply immediately with your information including your telephone number for easy communication and oral discussion.

Please do not disclose any part of this message to third party if you are not interested.

Best Regards.
Ngorn Bunpa
Mobile # (+855)-1146-1268 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (+855)-1146-1268

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