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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: "Lom Poh Foung" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <founglim@yahoo.com.my>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:20:59 +0200
Subject: Daiki Engineering SDN

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is Lim Poh Foung Account Executive of DAIKI ENGINEERING (SEA) SDN BHD Aluminum Company here in Malaysia.
Am in search of partner and profitable investor with a good capital base who would be able to invest a capital of $18.5 million dollars and within a reasonable time period come up with a good profit on the investment.
Due to high interest rate and falling exchange rates within our economy, investments projections for this year is really nothing to write home about, and might end up liquidating which would put our company in a very bad position.
These funds are part of the company assets starched in my escrow account though not declared as most of our board of directors wouldn’t agree to have an offshore investment
which they view too risky and non manageable even though its added to part of our company gains in the records.

Moreover my anonymity in this matter is privilege due to the state of affairs. Please write back so we can do the paper work and negotiate all workable forms that will be quite beneficial for both parties. Please send me your full contact details to me via email: founglim@yahoo.com.my if you would be able to handle this venture.
Yours truly,
Lim Poh Foung
Email: founglim@yahoo.com.my

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