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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: david pheng <davidpheng1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 03:15:11 +0700
Subject: NOTICE LETTER

Dear Good Friend,


Do not despair at my sudden contact, there is a business proposal that I
want to initiate with you, and I demand that you can handle this proposal
with a serious mind, as it requires utmost urgency and attention.

My name is Mr.David Pheng, I'm the Director in charge of audit and account
unit Department with a Bank here in South East Asia.You will know me more
as we go on.

There is a draft account in my bank, it belongs to a long-time client of my
bank. He was a CEO/a textile company owner, business man, a geologist and a
mining consultant to several mining conglomerates operating in South East
Asia and beyond.

He passed away on the November 16th 2004 by car accident with his wife and
two children along Cambodia Vietnam road, leaving nobody as the
representative of his account after his death. I want to present you to my
Bank as his representative. I will use my position and influence in our
bank to make sure that the money in his account is transferred to your
account for us to share. No risk will apply.

It will be easy for me to present you to my Bank as his representative
because you share the same last name with him.I am his account officer, I
can assure you that he has no next of kin.The amount involve is sixteen
million four hundred thousand United State dollars(16.4 million USD) with
more interest accumulating every day.Everything will be 100% risk free.

I will give you more detail on hearing from you. Kindly reply to [
phengdavid@outlook.com]

Thanks and best regards,

Mr David Pheng

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