419 scam: "Quach Trong Nghia"<goldenmoon46@libero.it> MY PROPOSITION.

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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.
- qtnghiaa@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Quach Trong Nghia" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <qtnghiaa@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:00:32 -0500
Subject: MY PROPOSITION.

Good day my dear friend,

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be treated as such. I am by name Quach Trong Nghia, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late client, who lived in my country of birth and worked as an independent oil magnate in Italy. He died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of October 2000. Since the death of my client in Oct 2000, I have made efforts with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate to no avail.

More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of US$18,620,000. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I decided to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client.

I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar last name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity. I propose that 30% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first to contact me via signifying your interest and as soon as I attain your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the details which you are to proceed and I shall direct guide you on how to put up a fund release application to the custodian bank.

Like I said, upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by e-mail: ( qtnghiaa@yahoo.com.hk ) the next step to take. I will not also fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as necessary arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I have implied, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this!

Best regards,
Quach Trong Nghia
E-mail: qtnghiaa@yahoo.com.hk

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