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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: " Philip Fen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <philip.fen2017@yandex.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:42:40 +0100
Subject: Hello,

Central, Hong Kong
Tel: +85281927438
Fax: +85230147870
E-mail:philip.fen2017@yandex.com


My Dear Esteem Friend,

I hope the day is treating you well, and your health is in good shape. However, I’m quite confident that you have the required potential to co-operate with me in this esteem business proposal. I came to,Spain, for a Business Conference and the occasion was suitable to contact you as it might surprise you to receive this letter directly from me due to no previous or formal communication between both of us. My name is, Mr Philip Fen, an investment banker of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in Hong Kong. My purpose of this letter is to seek your esteem co-operation to resettle the sum of, $16,100,000.00 USD, in a separate and private account under your trust. In respect to a Time Deposit facilitated by me,the depositor was a conservative husband with family ancestral ties dating back to your region. He consciously hid this estatein a, Time Deposit, during his divorce primary trial period in a soft and confidential tone of voice he whispered to me that he had no family member but only his estranged

However, I cordially seek your consent and confidence with due co-operation to transfer these funds to a separate account, I will be presenting you as the beneficiary of the funds because your, surname, is consistent with the, surname, of the decedent. I embodied an esteem reputation which have been relatively nurtured for years in the finance and other important sectors. Our religious and other fundamental practice may different but our understanding of necessities and opportunity are quite similar.
Note: If you’re not familiar with the method of how to transfer this sort of funds across region, with my wealth of experience I’ll be instrumental to direct you and cogently advice on how to receive the funds to avoid interrogation from your country’s monetary agency, and also provide you with the needed documents to validate your claims in a process that will keep the Tax at bay. This is not a common practice but a sensitive insight attributed to Investment Banking. I don’t regret sharing this intelligence with you because I presumed you will maintain the integrity of this information irrespective of your interest to establish partnership with me in this development. In my respective opinion 10% should be donate to noteworthy charity organizations, while the remaining 90% shared equally between both of us only. It is my responsibility to provide you with more insight and applicable documents to help you understand the development properly. It will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protec

The world is generally interconnected perhaps over a billion people with profound reputation will be faithful to execute this proposal with me with good intent as deemed necessary, but I’ve to be clinical to sort for an individual with consistent last name with the decedent to ease the required formalities needed to be observed as regulations demand. Another factor which have propelled me to advance this project towards your trusteeship is my inner trust in your personality. Competent individual disagree to agree. Basically the fate of the funds is that it will be confiscated later, or private individual that has controllable interest may notice the hollowness and divert it for personal interest. While we pray and patiently wait for opportunity in our daily activities, unknowingly to us we squander more opportunity than we can possibly estimate and subsequently imagine. Perhaps, opportunity like this have to be accounted for with utmost commitment in the wake of developing volatile economic period of uncerta

Sincerely Yours,


Mr. Philip Fen
Hong Kong.


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