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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: Peter Young <petng4@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 18:30:24 +0000
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANT IS NEEDED.


Dear,



I am Mr.Peter Young, an Auditing Manager with a Bank, I was personally in charge of the deposit made by one of our customer late Mr. Chowalert Jitjamnong, who till his death was a contractor with Our Government and an Oil Merchant dealer.



Late Mr. Chowalert Jitjamnong with his wife Mrs. Siriphut Jitjamnong and their only child Chawit Jitjamnong unfortunately lost their lives on One-Two-Go Orient-Thai Airlines flight OG269 Phuket Airport plane crash of Monday, 17th September 2007 from Bangkok to Phuket. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation:



http://www.korat-info.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1496



At the time of his death, he had a deposit of US$40.3M (Forty Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which was proceed of a contract work he just concluded with The Government before the unfortunate incident.



Unfortunately, till this moment no person has come as his relation for this deposit with us.



All I need from you now is to present you to the Bank Management as the next of kin to the dead man and have the Bank pay you (Beneficiary) this money as your late Uncle's money which he left in our bank since you are a foreigner like him.



We will be having a top management meeting in 5days time from now, hence you need to write me back soon so that I can instruct you what to do fast. So, Please if you are interested, kindly get back to me as quickly as possible to enable me make all the necessary arrangement towards how to present you to the bank as "truly next of kin" to the late man.

It is not a very difficult thing to do, it is 100% risk free and it will not take time.

After the claim of this money by you through our assistance, you will take 45% of the total Sum and 5% to cover any cost of expenses which both will incur in this transaction and keep the rest 50% for me in the account I will forward to you later after the deal is done or I will come to your place for sharing etc.

I will give you details as soon as you reach me via my private email address:



Kind Regards.

Mr.Peter Young

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