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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: "Mankovics Ilona Marta" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ilonamartam@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:03:56 +0200
Subject: Re: Business Proposition

Dear Sir/Madam,


By introduction, My name is Mankovics Ilona Marta, a Hungarian citizen
working with Bank of Ayudhya Thailand as an External Auditor. I and my
colleagues decided to track any of my late customer relative through
the last name due to mandate by the bank management to
provide the next of kin to his account within 29 days. We will be very
glad to address more details of this transaction to you once we
receive your response on willingness to work with us, so kindly send
us an email with your decision so that we can discuss in details on
how to accelerate further on this transaction. Please bear in mind
that our bank management does not know that me and my colleagues are
making alternative arrangement to secure this fund, so keep every bit
of this transaction strictly confidential and do not disclose this
information about the transaction with a third party without our
consent as you have got information about the dormant account, I will
explain every details of this transaction to you once i receive your
response.


Anyway let me give you a little insight about this transaction, based
on our search we have no other trace to any relative of the depositor
which means that if these funds are not claimed by any one related to
the depositor then it will be confiscated by the government of
Thailand and which will not benefit me and my colleagues that are
involved in this transaction. We have come to a conclusion that we
will provide to you every details, support and documents that might be
required to claim the funds as a relative of the late beneficiary
based on agreement that we will receive our share of the total sum
upon transfer of the total 45 million to your account.


After the transfer, 30% of the total fund will be your share. Maybe you
will be wondering why we have decided to get a share of this funds
knowing that we work for this bank, but sometimes in life you sit down
and think, then you will not help but believe that some things happen
for a reason. If you do not mind to know some of us have been working
with this bank for so many years e.g. 8, 10, 13 and 15 but even at
that we still struggle to meet the needs of our family.


Basically, since your last name is the same as our late customer we
will want you to act as the cousin (next of kin) to our late customer.
I believe with this truncate information you will understand the
reason why we have reach this decision, and we will appreciate your
response and willingness to make this transaction a reality by
replying this email and indicating your interest to work with us.


Please provide us with your data and also include your contact telephone
number, so that we can discuss more about the transaction. Upon confirmation
of your interest I will send you a detailed mail on how to proceed.


We look forward to your response.


Best regards,

Mankovics Ilona Marta.

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