419 scam: Mr Y J Cheong <hr@foryouce.com> MR.Jonathan Cheong

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "into your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "here in united kingdom" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mrycheong4000@yahoo.co.jp (Yahoo, Japan; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Y J Cheong <hr@foryouce.com>
Reply-To: <mrycheong4000@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:57:43 +0100
Subject: MR.Jonathan Cheong

FROM:MR.J.Y. CHEONG,
RELIANCE BANK LIMITED
FAITH HOUSE, 23-24 LOVAT
LANE,LONDON EC3R 8EB
UNITED KINGDOM

Attention: My Good Friend

This message comes to you with a heart of high level confidentiality. I got your contact from web and current affairs personality data base and my spirit convinced me to contact you.

I am MR.Jonathan Cheong, I am Mr. Y. Cheong,Manager Allocation Department(RELIANCE BANK LIMITED GB)Leicester Office.My office monitors and controls the affairs of all banks and financial institutions here in United Kingdom concerned with foreign claim payments. I have decided to contact you through this medium based on a business proposal which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. However, I got your contact through a BUSINESS TRADE MANUAL Chamber Of Commerce in my search for a foreign business partner whom I will transfer this fund in his personal or company's account.

During the annual bank auditing, we discovered an abandoned sum of £9,700,000.00
($15,431,495.81) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customers (Willie Jackson Sr.) 61 years, of Scotch Plains, N.J. USA lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. View this website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm ) .Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money, because we cannot release it unless somebody apply for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money. It is based on this, that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting you. If you indicate interest in this transaction I will let you know they steps to take for a smooth transaction for the approval of this fund from the Bank in your favor.

The mode of sharing after the transfer of the money into your nominated bank account will be as follows: 50% of this money will be for you,in respect to the provision of a foreign account and 50% would be for me as have planned to come to your Country as soon as the transfer is completed.

In receipt of this mail, Reply immediately via the below email and kindly send me your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please treat this business proposal STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Re: to mrycheong4000@yahoo.co.jp

hoping to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,
MR.Jonathan Cheong

N.B,PLEASE I WANT YOU TO ACCEPT THIS IF ONLY YOU PROMISED ME TO KEEP IT TO
YOUR SELF UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE MONEY INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

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