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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: investment manager <manger00106a@msn.com>
Reply-To: <pw_3ty@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:15:00 +0000
Subject: For Your Attention!!!



I am Wei Lin Jang, I am involved with the Guiyang Intellectual property
bureau which is in the Huizhou province of mainland China. I have asked a
friend on a tour of Europe / UK to post this letter on my behalf. I am
getting in touch with you regarding property investment that was
facilitated by myself and my colleagues a few years ago. We had started
this process with a Mr Scott Brand a while back.





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 2007, following government directive on sale of certain empty
property, we as government officials made sure that the sale of a
particular block of 80 flats in Guiyang was made to a certain
individual. The whole essence of this was the fact that we were able to
down value the property because it needed a bit of work. With the survey
approved, the property was sold to our nominated investor for
$27,000,000 (Twenty seven million United States dollars). This obviously
was not the actual value of the property.





With an investment of $7,000,000 (Seven million United States dollars),
we were able to bring the property back to government acceptable
standard and then put it immediately back in the market for $69,000,000
(sixty nine million dollars). This has been approved in principle. A
consortium of Japanese investors is now ready to make payment hence the
reason for this communication. Due to the fact that the original
investor is a foreigner, proceeds from the sale have to go overseas.





We are government officials that mean we are not in any way to be linked
with the sale of the property. We had to use a foreign individual from
the same country as you, also I believe in a similar industry as well.
The process was started with Mr. Brand. However in 2009 August he had an
automobile accident while on holiday in Dubai. He has passed on. Hence,
the reason for contacting you.





What I propose is this, that I need you to help complete this
transaction by receiving the funds. We will get a lawyer over here that
will get all the documents in your name as the sole beneficiary of this
estate. This is a straight forward transaction. All the hard work has
been done. Due diligence and compliance procedures have been carried out
to get to this stage. For all your effort I propose that you will get
40% of the profit. As it is now the profit is $38,000,000 (thirty eight
million United States dollars).





Nobody is getting hurt; this is a lifetime opportunity for us. I would
want us to keep communication for now strictly by the above telephone
and fax numbers or email address.


Please, again, 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.
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 the contact details above.





I await your response.





Wei Lin Jang


pw_3ty@yahoo.co.uk


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