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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: "Sophea Roit" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <roit_sophea@foxmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:08:25 +0800
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam

 
Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I am sure this letter will come as a surprise to you, but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal, With due regards.

My name is Mr.Sophea Roit,the business manager of auditing and accounting department of CIMB BANK branch office here in Cambodia.

Twenty Million US Dollars(US$20,000,000) was lodged/deposited since 2005 in our bank and the Beneficiary/depositor died in 2011 Asia Tsunami with his family while on holiday in JAPAN.

All attempts to trace any of his relatives was not successful. Now, I want you to stand in as Next of Kin/Beneficiary of this money so that we can share the money together.

30%(5,000,000) will be for you, 5%(1,000,000) will be for any expenses that both of us will make on this transaction and 60%(13,000,000) will be for me, which I also intend to invest in Real Estate business in your Country.

If you are capable and interested to make the transaction together with me, email me with the followings:-

1. Complete Names
2. Complete address .
3. Telephone, Mobile number
4. Occupation and Office position
5. Marital Status and Sex.
6. Age

Once I receive your email confirmation with the above required details,I will give you all the details on how we are going to do this deal successfully.

If you are not interested, do forgive me and just delete my email and forget about it. Please do no report or disclose this deal to anyone so that I may not loose my job.

Thank you for your understanding and hope to read from you soon

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Sophea Roit

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