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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: "Huang Fu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <huangfulgwei1@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:35:43 +0100
Subject: Hej, forretningstransaktion .....,

HHuang-Fu Longwei
Fax : +852 3014 0700
huangfulgwei1@yahoo.com.hk


I am Mr. Longwei, a Private Investment Manager in an Underground Bank in HK. I respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information I give you through letter.

In HK and China, underground banks have helped a lot of business to grow and give out loans to poor farmers as the banking laws were too strict and Government regulate. A couple of years ago, the Government of china waged major war against underground banks and most of the owners were arrested. Many people have transferred the money abroad with help of foreign partners as this is the safest way to get money out without getting into any problems with Chinese Government and International community. You can read more about underground banks online, although government try to write only bad things about it; http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/477599.aspx

After the government started to chase Underground banks, we got in touch with a specialist security company in China who agreed to keep money for a fee and make cash available to us when we need it. But the government seize our bank and take all cash away and arrested my boss but I was able to hide twenty one million, five hundred thousand dollars ($21,500,000 USD) with the company, which only me is aware of and keep with the company until everything is ok now. Not even my boss or anybody knows this.

Now the company tell me that they have help many Chinese business people to send their money abroad without any problem as things are better now. And if I look for trustworthy partner to send the money to abroad, they will help me to do the same.

If you are interested for be my partner for this venture, I will split money in half. I assure you that in the Asia banking circle this happens every time, or the money will be take by the Chinese Government. This is a lifetime opportunity for us and I believe that with your help we will achieve goal.

Please be informed that I am average man with a family consisting of my wife and children. I send you this mail in good faith and ask that you disregard my request if you not interested rather than betray my trust. If we can be of one accord, we can act swiftly to achieve our goal.

Please feel free to contact me via email or telephone above. And excuse my writing mistakes as I am not good for English.

I await your response.


Sincerely,
H. Longwei
huangfulgwei1@yahoo.com.hk

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