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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: "Mr FU Chi King Johnson" <fu_chiking@yahoo.co.hk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: fuchi_kingjj@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 00:57:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 11 / 05 / 2010

>From The Desk of Mr FU Chi King Johnson

Email: fuchi_kingjj@yahoo.com.hk


I am Mr FU Chi King Johnson, Principal Assurance manager for the Hang
Seng Bank in China. As a matter of fact, I am contacting you regarding the
estate of Alfred and an investment placed under our banks management 7
years ago.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a
result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of
this communication. In 2000, the subject matter; came to our bank to
engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He
informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 14.5 million United
States dollars,which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.

Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and
made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued
profit and interest stood at this point at over 10 million United States
Dollars. In mid 2002, he instructed that the principal sum (14.5M) be
liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash
payments in Hong Kong and China. We got in touch with a specialist bank in
China, the Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) who agreed to receive this
money for a fee and make cash available. However Guangdong Development
Bank got in touch with us last year that this money has not been claimed.
On further enquiries we found out that Alfred was involved in an accident
in Mainland China, which means he died intestate. He has no next of kin
and the reason I am writing you is because due to our code of conduct we
are not allowed to show personal interest on funds of this nature, hence I
decided to contact you due to the fact that you are based abroad. More so,
I got your email address through the commerce of trade foreing division.

What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, you will
be made the beneficiary of these funds. My bank will contact you informing
you that money has been willed to you. On verification, which will be the
details I make available to my bank, my bank will instruct GDB to make
payments to you. You do not have to have known him. I know this might be a
bit heavy for you but please trust me on this. For all your troubles I
propose that we split the money in half. In the banking circle this
happens every time. The other option is that the money will revert back to
the state.

Nobody is getting hurt; this is a lifetime opportunity for us. I hold the
KEY to these funds, and as a Chines National we see so much cash and funds
being re-assigned daily. I would want us to keep communication for now
strictly by this my confidential email address.

Once again, kindly note I am a family man, I have a wife and children. I
send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to the consequences,
but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that
success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the
one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my
confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this.
Please pardon my writing mistakes. Please get back to me immediately via
my confidential email as stated.

I await your response.

Mr FU Chi King Johnson

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