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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 Lee Yuang" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:39:10 +0800
Subject: REPLY THIS MAIL IF INTRESTED...

Dear,
I have the right to change information and documents as a file mamager,i can push money out into your account.
But the problem is,''can i trust you'' ?
I want to do these because am nearing my retirement and i will go to NewYork city for an investmen with my family, so i need your assistance to pull some huge amount out from the bank of china.

An indonesian decease had an account amount worth up 4million united states dollars here in our bank

I dont know you in person but i believe we can do this together with trust, please keep this deal secret.
I will give you a form to fill and apply for the withdraw of this amount 4million usd,once i hear from you,then i shall details you on how we are going to achieve this success.
Here is the air crash website on cnn.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/20/china.planecrash/

The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer from Indonesia.

Since we got information about our customer death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws , but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation are nolonger to be found through the proper verification i and my coleagues had made

A lawyer shall issue you the documents of Afidafit from the ministry of finance which you will use to withdraw the whole amount of 4million dollars.

Do communicate me back if you are willing to run this deal secret with me..By providing information about your self such as....
Name....
Age .....
Country....
Occupation....
Cell phone no....


YOURS FAITHFULLY
DR.LEE YUANG
Manager File Department
ICBC BANK GUANZHOU CITY CHINA.
BANK WEBSITE www.icbc.com.cn

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