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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: "John Chan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <maildrjohnchanjp@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:38:38 +0200
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE!

Hello,
 
I am Dr. John Chan Jp, a director with Hang Seng Bank Limited here in Hong-Kong and I have a good and profitable business proposal for you.
 
One of our client who unfortunately is now deceased had a fixed deposit of the sum of US$20,500,000 with our bank and he died intestate{without a will} and all of our efforts to trace any of his living relative has proved abortive as he was childless and he died with his wife.
 
By virtue of my status within bank and the  Hong-Kong society in general, I cannot transfer this money to myself/personal account, hence I am seeking your total co-operation for you to work with me and my partners towards ensuring the safe transfer of this money into your bank account for sharing or investment purposes.
 
Upon the successful completion of this business transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the transferred amount  while my partners and I will go home with the remainder 70% .
 
For now I need the following information from you:-
Your Full Names, And Your age
Your Contact Address in full
Your Private Phone numbers
Your profession, what do you do for a living
 
I will oblige you more detailed information of this business offer and also send to you the data pages of my international passport and bank I.D in my next e-mail correspondence,
 
Please, you are required to keep this business offer STRICTLY private and CONFIDENTIAL too, as I wait your positive immediate reply ASAP.
 
I thank you.
Kind Regards
 
Dr. John C.C. Chan JP.
Hang Seng Bank Limited
Hong-Kong SAR
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