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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: " From Hong Kong" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <leemhd@consultant.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 21:50:08 +0100
Subject: From Hong Kong

Hello my Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise, please accept the content in good faith. Let me introduce myself, I am Mr Andrew Zhu Chunxiu, I work with Chong Hing Bank in Hong Kong. I have a business proposal for you.

I had an Libya client named Mr. Mohamed Ya'qoob, a business man, he made numbered fixed deposit account of 44,500,000.00 dollars in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war, few years ago since 2012. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that Mr. Mohamed Ya'qoob and his family had been killed during the war in Gunfire that hit their home at Oil-Rich Port City Of Sirte where his personal oil business was located.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Mr. Mohamed Ya'qoob did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. 44,500,000.00 dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration two years, six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Chinese Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. I do not want the Chinese Government to claim this money.

Be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner which gives you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary. As my client had no relation all his family died with him during the war in Libya and I cannot use my relation because it is not accepted here in Hong Kong. Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from you is your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the next one week.

What you need to understand about this transaction is that I will make sure that it passes through all international banking laws regards to this I will take care of some of the expenses and the cost of retaining the services of professional attorneys to give the transaction the proper documentation that is required to perfect the finishing. Nothing will be done illegally.

The below is what you need to understand about this business:

1. Quickly be informed that you will have to set up an Offshore account that can accommodate the 44,500,000.00 dollars, it will be with a bank ABROAD that I will transfer the money to. The reason why you will have to set up an offshore account is because of security and privacy reasons, I can not transfer the money directly to your country and also because of the large sum. Please note that whatever you shall spend in opening the account you shall deduct it from the 44,500,000.00 dollars before we share 50/50, secondly the account will be opened in your name and you shall be the only one to have access to this account.

2. I shall be the one to handle the cost of the attorney which is also a lot of money that the lawyer will bill. I shall also be the one to handle the cost of transfer and tax payment from Hong Kong before the funds is finally transferred to the offshore bank that you shall open. Haven’t said that, be informed that you will need some amount of money to set up this account with the principal bank abroad as opening deposit as its been called base on the fact that it’s an Offshore account, this however will enable the account to accommodate the 44,500,000.00 dollars that will be transferred and the money will not bounce back to my bank.

Please note that there shall be an agreement letter that will be prepared in the court of law by the attorney, this letter will state our commitment and also state that we shall both deduct from the 44,500,000.00 dollars our liquidated amount before we will share 50/50. The agreement will be prepared in the court of competent jurisdiction and must be signed by us before we enter into this deal fully.


Therefore, if you are willing to work with me in this project, reply me back through my private email:
leemhd@consultant.com
Immediately I get your response, I will tell you what to do next. Thank you very much.


Sincerely,
Mr Andrew Zhu hunxiu

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