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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: test@cagroup.com
Reply-To: honyutsi1@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:00:01 -0800
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam

Dear Sir/Madam,

Contacting you through this letter is not with the intention to delve into your privacy without caution or distract you with my intents and purposeful endeavor. I have decided to reach you with the hope of building a relationship of trust, reliance and confidence which you will come to understand and appreciate in the near future. Honshiku E. Yutsi, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Controller at Shanghai Commercial Bank Limited Hong Kong, 12 Queen's Road Central Hong Kong. Your contact details was taken from the US public record registry , in the quest for a next of kin of a late customer from my bank, Mr. Andrew Hansen an oil Magnate that lived in Hong Kong for about nine years. He passed on with his immediate family in a ghastly motor accident along with his family in the city of Kowloon in June 2005, without appointing a next of kin to his estate.

Before the above mentioned ugly catastrophe that cause his death, a lump sum deposit of $43,736,580.00 (Forty Three Million, Seven Hundred and Thirty Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty USD) was placed under my bank's custody for safe keeping. On the condition that you bear the same last name with the deceased oil magnet, it has prompted me to present you as his next of kin to apply and claims the deposit he had with my bank, to avoid the confiscation of the said funds by the authorities and returned to the treasury of the bank of china as unclaimed proceeds of trade and deposit from late customers. Following the reasons that we operate in compliance with the Hong Kong laws, such proceeds is conferred to the government’s treasury if all effort to find heirs, next of kin or members of the deceased’s family proves abortive in all ways during the specified time period, required to find a beneficiary to claim the funds. However, this law is unjust and inhuman as it often creates avenues for the top officials of some financial institutions to divert such fortunes for their own selfish use. On that ground, I decided to search for any of my late client's relative which has proved abortive as he did not declare officially any Next of kin or beneficiary. However, this law is unjust and inhuman as it often creates avenues for the top officials of some financial institutions to divert such fortunes for their own selfish use.

I know you are not related but after countless efforts to locate direct relative to the late client, due to the (6) six months final notice from the Bank to find a beneficiary to the fund, failure to meet up with this deadline means the fund will be liquidated to the Bureau as unclaimed fund and that I forbid happening. Against this backdrop, I decided to contact you to join me to put claims on this deposit before it`s forfeited to the authorities. My suggestion to you is that, I would like to present you as the Next of Kin and beneficiary to this deposit, since you are both foreign nationals and you share same last name by virtue of my position as the branch manager, I will now place your name as the Next of kin/Beneficiary to the late client and I will prepare the relevant legal documentations that will assist to facilitate the release of the fund to you without any breach of law.

I have worked out all modalities to complete the transaction successfully, be rest assured; the transaction is 100% legal and risk free. Once the fund is released to you, we shall share in the ratio of 55% for me, 40% for you while remaining 5% will be set aside for charitable works. If my proposal is acceptable, kindly reply via email asap: honyutsi1@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Honshiku E. Yutsi

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