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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: "Lee Youny" <oanextyouny1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:34:04 +0200
Subject: Since we got information about.....................


AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT,
HSBC CHINA.
22/F, HSBC BUILDING, SHANGHAI IFC
8 CENTURY AVENUE,PUDONG
SHANGHAI 200120
PEOPLE REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
PRIVATE E-MAIL:oanextyouny1@gmail.com
PHONE:0086
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE:http://www.kalam.tv/ur/video/28842/


Compliment of the season,

On a very good day. I am Mr Lee Youny a senior staff in file
department in Hongkong And Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC.When i
was searching for a foreign partner and i came across your profile
which assured of your capability and reliability to champion this
business opportunity.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum
of $15M USD ( Fifteen Million U.S.A Dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer

Mr Mohammad Ishaque Rafique Ahmed who died a long with his entire family in a

plane crash on(Friday May 21, 2010 ).Since we got information about
his death,we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his money because our bank cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you for
our bank to release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to
the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury
account as unclaimed bill.

According to the Chinese Banking law and guideline here stipulates
that if such
money remained unclaimed after one year, the money will be transferred
into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner, and a Chinese cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I
agree that once this money is transferred into your account that 45%
of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the
provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 45 % will be for me , Therefore after
I will visit you in your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you
must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private
telephone and
fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the
money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you
by fax or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom
of fear as
all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
Names: ..............
Telephone number: ..............
Fax number: ..............
Nationality: .................
Present Address: ..................
Marital Status......................
Age: ...............
Sex: ...................
Occupation: ...............
Your Photograph.........................

You should contact me on my number +861 immediately as soon as you
receive this
letter.And reply me with this e mail
address(oanextyouny1@gmail.com)immediately
with those information i need from you, for me to process the text of
application for you to apply to the bank.

Yours faithfully,
Lee Youny.

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the
transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will provide to
the bank.As you finished reading this letter call me immediately so
that we discuss very well over this business.You should call me and
inform me that you received my mail.






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