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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.Young Chin." <info@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mryoungchin_1@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:27:37 +0800
Subject:


Good day,

I am Young Chin, the senior Auditor In charge of Foreign Remittance
Unit of our
bank here in Hong-Kong, and i decided to contact you for this
financial transaction worth Nineteen million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($19.5m) for our present and future success. Please endeavor to observe utmost
discretion in all matters concerning this issue.

This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign
customers who
died along with his entire family through a plane crash in december 2007.

Please You can see the website link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6997381.stm

Meanwhile i was very fortunate to come across the deceased file when I was
arranging old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the
entire bank management on official Re-documentation and to the law imposed by
the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as said in the World Press Confrerence
held on Tuesday 6 december 2005 at 12:18 GMT.

For more information about the prime Minister decision on Dormant Accounts
please click this link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm

An Audit of the year against 2006 informed clearly that it was stated in our
Foreign banking Rules and Regulations which was signed lawfully that if such
fund remains unclaimed till the period of 3 years started from the date when
the beneficiary died, the money will be transfered into the Goverment treasury
as an unclaimed fund. However, it is not authorized by the rules guiding our
bank here for a citizen of China to make the claim of the fund unless
you are a
foreigner, no matter the country you come from.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and
transfer of the fund smoothly into a much reliable bank account as the next of
kin to the deceased. After the end of the business, We shall agree that {40%}
Fourty Percent will be for you in respect of all your assistance for this
transaction, then {60%} Sixty Percent will be for me being the pioneer of the
transaction . I really need your Trust, worthiness, and
confidentiality on this
transaction.

I will want you to Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters
concerning this issue. If interested, please do send your response to my
personal email address:mryoungchin_1@yahoo.co.jp

I expect your urgent communication.

Yours sincerely,
Mr.Young Chin.






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