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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. Richard Tan" <support05@makroaero.com>
Reply-To: richard.tan.esq@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 21:37:41 +0300
Subject: Requesting your Partnership



--
Greeting From Malaysia and Thanks for your attention.

I am seeking the attention of investors, project owners and general
business facilitators.

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being confidential. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one worried, but I am
assuring you that you have nothing to worry about as it will be
conducted on a legal arrangements.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you, My name is Mr.
Richard Tan, a Finance lawyer and I worked as Financial adviser/ fund
Manager for Late Mr. Andreas Schranner A German business magnate, an
expatriate engineer who has worked with the Mining and Smelting Company
here in Malaysia, Late Mr. Andreas Schranner, died in the plane crash
Monday, 31 July 2000, (an air France jet liner) with his entire family
and other passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself via the
website below for (BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm)

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help me to secure his funds
deposited with Worth Finance & Investment Group a Security Fiduciary of
Bank Simpanan Nasional Malaysia BSN before he died, to avoid it being
confiscated or declared as unclaimed by the Bank. The fund value is the
sum of US$18.6M (Eighteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only) According to Malaysian banking laws, after the expiration
of 14 (fourteen ) years it will be confiscate as state treasury if
nobody apply for the claim.

As his Financial adviser/ fund Manager, the bank has issued me a final
notice to contact his relative's or his next of kin or else the money
will be declared as unclaimed and it will be diverted to the
Government's Account. So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone
related to my late client have been unsuccessful, Now I have decided to
look for an investor that has the same surname with my late client or
that is willing to partner with me so that I can present him or her to
the bank as the beneficiary of my late client.
I am asking for your consent to present you as my client's Beneficiary
so that they funds can be transferred to your account. All the legal
documents to back up this claim as my client's Beneficiary, I shall
provide them. What I need from you is your full confidentiality and
cooperation.

I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be shared among
Charity Organizations, while the remaining 80% is shared equally between
us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as a
Finance lawyer to back you plus my insight on any question that may
arise about my late client to guarantee the successful execution of this
transaction.
If you are interested, please contact me via E-mail:
richard.tan.esq@gmail.com

upon your response. I shall then provide you with more details and
relevant documents that will help you understand more on this
transaction.

The intended transaction will be processed under legal arrangements
which will protect me and you from any violation of law. If you wish to
achieve the goal with me, please kindly get back to me with your
interest for further explanations and better understanding. Also be kind
to let me know if you are not interested so that I can further my search
to another Citizen that has the same surname with my late client.

Kindest Regards,
Mr. Richard Tan

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