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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. ANAND PANYARACHUN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <anandpanyachun001@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:43:51 +0100
Subject: RE: 25-07-2011.

MR. ANAND PANYARACHUN
SIAM COMMERCIAL BANK BANGKOK BRANCH.
HUALUMPHONG RAILWAYS STATION SUB BRANCH,
LONGMUANG PHARARAM 4, PATHUMWAN, BANGKOK

I am Mr. Anand Panyarachun the director of operations Siam Commercial Bank Thailand,
I have an obscured business proposal for you if only you will be interested.

Before the resent crisis in Thailand, Mr. Sam pong who worked for the Thailand government as a minister And a businessman heard a business with my bank before he heard problem in office, but he flew out of Thailand because of the pressure from the present government, but he made a number of fixed deposit for 20 calendar months, which value was ($5.4m) Five million and four hundred thousand united state dollars in my branch.

Upon maturity several notices were sent to him in the past 8 months. A notification was sent to him and still no response came from him. We later got information that him and his wife and their only son were killed by assassins in Ukraine where he ran to.

After further investigations I discovered that Mr. Sam pong did not declare any next of kin in his official paper work of his bank deposit and also he confided in me the last time we spoke that no one knew about the deposit in my bank except me because he never wanted the present Thai government to know he heard such amount of money in his account the total amount out of this country to a Bank in U.S.A, because I am the only person who knows about the said deposit, So am suggesting to you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Sam pong so that you will be able to file claim and have the fund claimed from the U.S.A Bank. I want you to know that I have everything planned out so that we shall come out clean and successful.

All that is required from you is at this time is to provide me with your full information's.

Your Full name, Country, Direct phone or Cell number, Fax number, Occupation, Sex, Marital status, Age, next of kin and any valid identifications. Your National ID card, Drivers license or International passport, So that the Bank U.S.A will recognize you, because the certificate of deposit must bear your name and the said amount must bear your name as the next of kin to late Mr. Sam pong, After you have been made the next of kin, you will present the deposit certificate bearing your name and information as the next of kin to the U.S Bank for prove of authenticity and file in for claim of the total amount.

Should you be interested please send me your full information as demanded,
after that I will provide you with more details of this operation.

You can contact me on my private email address:

I will be grateful if you oblique to this letter.

Kind Regards

MR. ANAND PANYARACHUN

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