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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: "Mr. Ming Mui" <muifile@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:45:43 +0100
Subject: FROM THE BRANCH MANAGER (ICBC) USA

Mr. Ming Mui
Vice President/Branch Manager
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) USA
Oakland Branch, 401 9th Street
Oakland, CA 94607, USA

Dear Friend
Greetings,

I have tried reaching you on the phone severally but no
response until
last night that a lady picked and informed me that I have
been calling a
wrong telephone number so I decided to reach you by email
today. I will be
brief in this message for safety reasons though I would not
have used this
medium (Internet) if I had reached you through the phone
though email is
also the fastest, surest and good secured medium of
communication.
However, this correspondence is un-official and private, and
it should be
treated as such. I also guarantee you that this transaction
is hitch free
from all what you may think of.


I am Mr. Ming Mui, Vice President and Branch
Manager,Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China, (ICBC) Oakland Branch California
USA. I am
contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that will
be attached to
this transaction. The Management and the Legal department of
our Bank,
(ICBC) in a recent meeting recommended that the account of
LATE ROMAN
BLUM, who was one of my branch depositors, should be
declared Dormant,
confiscated and the depositor's fund sent to the Bank
Treasury according
to American Banking and financial law. He died in January
2012 at the age
of 97 years leaving no heir to this account. The bank has
made series of
efforts to contact any of the relatives to claim this money
but without
success, you can confirm through this site:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/34142-roman-blum-no-heirs-to-receive-40-milli...........................

OR

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/holocaust-survivor-left-an-estate-...........................

LATE ROMAN BLUM own an account in my branch; he owns a
dollar account with
the sum of US$68.2M (Sixty Eight Million, Two Hundred
Thousand United
States Dollars Only) deposited in a Secret account with my
branch. In
fact, since his death, no next of kin to the account holder
(the brother)
nor any relative of his have shown up for the claim, this is
because he
has the account as a secret account thus he left all the
documents for the
deposit with me.

This is where I am interested and where I want you to come
in. I want you
to come in as the relation of the deceased; I will give you
the relevant
documents and contacts to file the application and then
effect the
approvals for the transfer of the money, I will be the one
to provide the
vital documents for the claims of the money and then advise
you exactly
how we should handle it.

Please include your telephone/fax number/ Home address when
replying this
mail and I will give you more information as soon as you
indicate your
willingness to assist in this transaction. we will use our
positions to
get all internal documentations to back up the claims. Do
not be bothered
that you are not related in any way to him as I am in
position to affix
your name as the next of kin.

The whole Procedures will last only 9 working days to get
the fund
retrieved successfully without trace in future.

After the transfer of the money we shall share the money
60-40.that is I
will have 60% while you will have 40%. Kindly respond
promptly so that I
can advice you on the next step to follow.

I will be waiting to hear from you.

Yours truly,
Mr. Ming Mui
Vice President/Branch Manager
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) USA


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