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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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Fraud email example:

From: "sammy kowk" <kwprofile1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ltdprofile@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:22:52 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: Greetings,

Mr. Sammy Kwok
Vice President & Branch Manager
Temple City Branch
5773 Rosemead Boulevard,
Temple City, CA 91780, USA

Greetings,
I am Mr. Sammy Kwok, Vice President and Branch Manager, Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China, (ICBC) Temple City Branch California USA. I am
contacting you based on trust and confidentiality that will be attached
to this transaction so kindly keep this a secret even if you decides not
to get involved with this. The Management and the Legal department of my
Bank, (ICBC) in a recent meeting recommended that the account of LATE
ROMAN BLUM, who was one of my branch major 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 all to no avail, you can confirm through this site:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/34142-roman-blum-no-heirs-to-receive-40-million-fortune-after-death/
OR
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/holocaust-survivor-left-an-estate-worth-almost-40-million-but-no-heirs.html?pagewanted=3
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
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 fund to your nominated
bank account, I will be the one to provide the vital documents for the
claims of the funds and then advise you exactly how we should handle it.
This may look difficult or impossible to you but I assure you that I will
make this work without difficulties. All I need is your consent to carry
out the transaction and we shall celebrate in a very short while.
Should you be interested in this, kindly include your telephone/fax
number/ Home address when responding to this proposal to enable me give
you more information on how to proceed. We will use my position to get all
internal documentations to back up the claims. Do not be bothered that you
are not in any way related to him as I am in position to affix your name
as the next of kin.
The whole procedures will last only 9 banking 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. Sammy Kwok
Vice President & Branch Manager
Temple City Branch

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