419 scam: "Mr.Cheng Puk"<info@chengpuk.org.biz> Greetings to you:

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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:

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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Cheng Puk" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chengpuk@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 02:09:01 +0700
Subject: Greetings to you:

Dear friend,

My name is Cheng Puk, I work with a financial institution in South East Asia. One of our customers made a huge sum deposit years ago, very unfortunately he was involved along with his entire family in an air disaster on 16 February 2014.You can read more from the link below, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal_Airlines_Flight_183with.No survivor leaving nobody to lay claim on his beneficiary which will be directed to government treasury in the event that no one comes up for claims. All our efforts to trace a living relative of him did yield any negative result.

In capacity as his accounts officer, I have the ability to have this fund transferred abroad, my reason for contacting you is to have the fund transferred on mutual benefit of us, there are no risks whatsoever attached. I am the director of the department that will approve the transfer of the fund.

It will be executed without any breach of the law.We will have the fund shared once it’s credited into your account.
Please delete this message if this proposal does not interest to you.

Regards,
Cheng

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