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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Vattanak Chhey" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chheyvattanak@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:36:33 +0700
Subject: Greetings to you:

My Dearest Friend,

I am Mr.vattanak Chhey, The chief auditor in bank of Asia,in south east Asia (Cambodia), One of our customers, with his entire family was among the victims of plane crash and before his death, he has an account with us valued at $27.200.000.00 us dollars(twenty-seven million two hundred thousand us dollars) in our bank and according to the Cambodia law, at the expiration of Ten years if no body applies to claim the funds a grace of thirty (30) days will be given before the money will revert to the ownership of the Cambodia government.

My proposals that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or distant cousin for us to claim this money, so that the fruits of this old man’s labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials who will later use the money to sponsor war and do some evil act in search of political power.

As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into your account, you are entitle to 40% of the total money while 55%will be for me as the moderator of this transaction and 5% is been mapped out for any expenditure that may be incur during the course of this transaction. Please note that there will be no problem as my bank has made all effort through to reach for any of his relation but all was fruitless.
My position as the chief auditor in this bank guarantees the successful execution of this (deal) transaction.

when I acknowledge your response;
I shall wait to hear from you.
Regards
Vattanak.
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Nov. 1, 2002, 15:00 PST (FTW) -- The air crash deaths of Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter, three staff members and two pilots at approximately 10:25 a.m. on Oct. 25 in Eveleth, Minn. has given rise to the widespread belief -- shared by at least two members of the House of Representative.

They crashed 2 miles from Eveleth Municipal Airport while attempting to land in freezing rain and light snow. Wellstone, along with his wife, daughter and 3 staff members killed while campaigning. Pilot error in flying the plane too slowly on the approach until it stalled. All 8 aboard killed.es who spoke on condition of anonymity -- that the crash was a murder.

http://planecrashinfo.com/w20021025.htm

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