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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: "Ray Tsang" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <raytsang7@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 20:02:10 -0000
Subject: RE:

Hello,

The purpose of this letter is not with the objectives to snoop your privacy, without respect or distract you with my proposal and gainfulproject. I contacted you on the interest of establishing a relationship of trust, respect, love and confidence which you will come to understand and appreciate soon. I am ?Ray Tsang, Assistant General Manager & Deposit Management Head at China CITIC Bank International Limited, The Chinese Bank Building, 61-65 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong. Your details were extracted from your country’s public record registry, in the search for a last name like that of a late customer from my bank, My client, a business tycoon that lived-in Hong Kong for 20years. He passed away with his immediate family in a ghastly motor accident in the City of Tsuen Wan in January2006. He did not have the opportunity to appoint nest of kin to his estate, before his sudden death.

Before the above mentioned ugly catastrophe that cause his death, a lump sum deposit of $54,692,863.00 (Fifty-Four Million, Six Hundred and Ninety-Two Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty-Three USD) was placed under my bank's custody for safe keeping. On the condition that you bear the same last name with the deceased customer, 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. Because our operation is compliant 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 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 inst

I am contacting you because you share the same last name with my late client; I know you are not related but after countless efforts to locate direct relative to the late client, due to the (180 days) final notice from the Bank to find a beneficiary to the fund, and 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 proposal is that I would like to present you as the Next of Kin and beneficiary to my bank, because both of you are foreign nationals and you share same last name, by my position as the Assistant General Manager & Deposit Management Head, 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 the law.

Note that I have worked out all modalities to complete the transaction successfully, be rest assured that the transaction is 100% legal and risk free. Once the fund is released to you, we shall share in the ratio of 50% for me, 45% for you while remaining 5% will be set aside charitable works. If my proposal is acceptable to you, kindly reply

Sincerely,
Ray Tsang

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