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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: "ching yuen" <ching_y@ethnic-chinese.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 07:58:08 +0000
Subject: help me on both humanitarian and mutually benefiting interest grounds

Dear friend,

My name is Mr. Ching Jin Yuen, and my home address is PONDOK JATI CR-1,
SIDOARJO-61251, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA. I am writing to you to help me on both
humanitarian and mutually benefiting interest grounds. I am relying on your
help; in return, I will compensate you most generously. My story is not
quite unique or new, but I believe this approach will bring a solution to my
family ordeal. Please forgive me for invading your privacy. I specifically
chose free, opensocieties,
which we can only dream of. Because I believe you are a busy person, please
let me briefly outline my agenda, and then, I will proceed to give you
details. I am an orthodox Christian and a minority ethnic Chinese of
Indonesia, and though we as a people have suffered Official and private
persecution for years, but recently the economic downturn of Indonesia has
been blamed on us and we have become the scapegoats please check the
following Websites on Attrocities in Indonesia:

http://www.pacificnet.net/jue/idontknow/indonesia/indonesian_attrocities.html
http://www.huaren.org/editorial/id/080498.html
http://wcar.alrc.net/mainfile.php/Statements/41/

You will find countless articles on the subject, and it is sobering to say
the last in the light of the foregoing, I took precautionary steps years ago
and established a numbered Account in United Kingdom, Funds on current
Deposit 9,375,406.98GBP. As it turned out, it was my wisest and best
decision yet, and the future of my family is now centered on this money.
How? Since the Riots broke out, the ethnic Chinese, particularly the rich
and middle class have been restricted from emigrating to other countries
with their wealth. The Secret Police trail and watch yourevery move; even as
I write to you, my telephone is bugged and my family and I are virtually on
house arrest. A Visa application by the unwary is an invitation for trouble
and the Secret Police will instantly be at your door and your bank Account
frozen these are the sordid details and our dear President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyonodoes not want the world to know about! On a practical side, I have
tried both openly and also clandestinely to obtain visas for myself and my
family at the American Embassy, Address: JI. Merdeka Selatan 4-5, Jakarta
10110, Indonesia, Phone (62-21) 3435-9000; Fax: (62-21) 385-7189, and my
efforts proved fruitless; even an application on humanitarian grounds to the
American Ambassador, Mr. B. Lynn Pascoe, was turned down for "want of
merit", an official language meaning that a grant of visa will be against
the interest of the State of Indonesia! In summary therefore, I am planning
to emigrate to America or Canada or any other Western Country, and I need
your help. I cannot do it from Indonesia.

As a wealthy man I have some means and help, but because of the prying eyes
of the Secret Police, I am greatly handicapped. I have made a lot of
research and I have a plan that will work, with your cooperation will
require your help to retain immigration Attorney who will prepare the basic
paperwork for me; I will thereafter arrange with a contact Mr. Chin Chun
Chang who resides in
Malaysia and works as a Clerk Assistant and he will help me in processing
visas and passports for me and my family from Malaysia. This contact will,
at the appropriate time arrange passage for me and m y family to your
residing country. Once in your country of residence, I will be free to
invest my money in any profitable business in your country.

Meanwhile, I have given the bank in UK currently with my funds instructions
to follow my NEXT OF
KIN in order to avoid anyone or the Secret Police forcing me under coercion
to wire the funds back to Indonesia or anywhere; it is my greatest security.
If you are willing to assist me you

will please do the following for me: -

(1) You will have to contact the bank in UK with my instructions to make all
necessary arrangement/transactions with them in order to effect my entire
funds 9,375,406.98GBP into your
specified bank account as my NEXT OF KIN.

(2) Upon receiving the money of 9,375,406.98GBP into your account, you will
use part of the money to retain an immigration Attorney to advise me
(though, from my researches, my emigration to Canada/America or any Western
Countries is assured because of my SUBSTANTIAL UK HOLDINGS.

(3) You will please also arrange air charter transportation for me and my
family from Malaysia to your country of residence details will follow later.
If you are willing to help me, please reply ONLY by email, and we will
establish our game plan.

However, in response to this email please forward to me the below
information to enable my bank
in UK to enable all necessary contact with you.

i.Your full names
ii.Contact address (Office/Residence)
iii.Telephone/Fax numbers (Office/Residence)

As soon as I receive the above information from you I shall forward to you
immediately the complete details of my Bank in UK with my funds to commence
the processing of transfer to your Bank with my instruction. Because, I made
it known to my Bank in UK that I will provide my NEXT OF KIN in response of
my funds transfer.

Thank you for your cooperation. I am looking forward to hearing from you
soonest. Please, forward
your reply to my email address below.

Your friend,
MR. CHING JING YUEN
E-MAIL: info_yuen2010@yahoo.co.id


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