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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: "Mr. JOHN SHUM" <batters@rams.com>
Reply-To: johnshum23@qq.com
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:55:49 +0100
Subject: PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU

White & Case
9th Floor Central Tower
28 Queen's Road Central
Hong Kong

This proposal was mailed to you with clear intents and purposes; I have a proposal even though complex however beneficial. My name is John Shum solicitor with White & Case LLP as a legal and financial advisor assigned to administer client’s social and economical interest as it may require.

My acquaintances with various clients acquaints me with an investor and business owner of Japanese nationality, it is no longer news the natural disaster that occurred in Japan over 310 people were killed, 350 missing and 544 people injured after 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011. My client Mr. Murasaki Takahashi” perished with his family in this unfortunate natural disaster. The news agencies of Kyodo and Jiji Press said that the corpses were found in Tokyo after the family home collapsed.

The demise of the breadwinner and the entire family evidently shaped an ample opportunity to gain immensely from the financial investment made by the breadwinner with a known Bank in Hong Kong an offshore bank account that would be disclose to you in due course of our correspondence; if we eventually establish a business relationship. As an expression of interest and determination, the sum of USD32.500.000 (Thirty-Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) is claimable at our gainful resolves and mutual interest as partners. It is a factual statement that a Man Tragedy is Another Man Opportunity.

Thus, I proposed to do business with you in lieu to showcase intricacies of larceny while acting within the law and gain mutually with no risk exposed to your integrity because modality of operations have been carefully designed to suit your pose, additionally this plot is absolutely an arrangement between you and me no other employee nor my employer is aware of this subversion because White & Case LLP is a large American law firm with over 2,000 lawyers in 37 offices in 25 countries and more than 4,800 staff. 2008 economic crisis, the frozen credit markets, economic shrinkage, and global downturn that began in 2008 have had a significant impact on White & Case as well as other law firms. On November 11, 2008, the firm announced that it was laying off 70 lawyers and 100 staff members at a time when job prospects for lawyers were very weak. With a second round of layoffs on March 10, 2009, an additional 200 lawyers and 200 staff were laid off. I supposedly need to take advantage of this kind of opportunity to secure retirement age in a highly competitive and cruel world.

Think this over and should you be interested, please let me hear from you. Perhaps if you are not interested kindly treat this letter with confidentiality and discard completely.

Yours Truly

John Shum
(Consultant Solicitor & Partner)
Mobile: NA
Fax: NA
Email: johnshum23@qq.com

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