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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: "Mr. Pakpao Lee" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lothou3030k@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:35 +0200
Subject: Did You Ask Mr.Johnson Edwary To Contact Us.

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
How are you? What is keeping you from responding to our mails? We have reach in-conjuction with African banks, British bank and United Nation Standard Chartered Bank (Thailand) has been approved as the rightful bank that will handle all the out standing fund own by foreigners. So we have contacted you couple of times yet there was know response from you.  Meanwhile I have received mail from Mr. Johnson Edwary saying that you ask him to contact us and claim your $6.8 Million is that true? Also he sent us a power of attorney stating that truly you ask him to claim your fund. Bellow are the bank account details he provided to us for the transferring of the fund.
 
 
Bank Name: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Bank Address:  200 Bay Street P.O. Box 1, Royal Bank Plaza Toronto, ON M5J 2J5 Canada.
Account Holder: JOHNSON EDWARY
Account No: 74527097777
Routing Number: 759rbc
Swift Code:xxb854
 
Please confirm to us if truly you are the one or not that ask him to contact us for the claiming of the fund. You are only advice to contact us on this email address ( cbnoffice55@consultant.com )
 
Mr. Pakpao Lee
Standard Chartered Bank (Thailand)
 

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