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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 Lee Wang" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <leew3352@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 16:08:44 -0700
Subject: THIS IS URGENT!


Dear Friend,

I hope this message gets to you in good health as we hope to come out safe from this COVID-19 pandemic .

I am Dr. Lee Wang, personal assistant under the supervision of Mr Peter Leung the General Manager Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.

I am writing you this email to let you know Cathy L Francis, was an investor of the company and was contacted January 7th 2020 through her phone but couldn't get through after many times of trying.

I have personally contacted you on this without response. I will appreciate your response when you get this.

We are clinically taking our time to scrutinize overdue investors fund back to the owners and their family members/Next Of Kin. March 7th, 2020 was exactly 17 years of her fixed investment plan expiration. Due to this current COVID-19. pandemic, we have been asked to release all foreign investors fund to their next of kin/families with immediate effect.

With the documentations with us as stated in her documented details, only when her investment plan which was signed and sealed for 17 years before withdrawals.

I am at this point contacting you to stand as relative and next of kin. Cathy died just this February just after her investment matured.

Could you please kindly come forward with any relevant form of identification to receive her money in the tune of 120,301,000CNY which is an equivalent of $17,038,600 US Dollars.

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Note: We are going to ask some vital questions and pictures to enable the board committee to sign off this agreement to you, as all protocols for this fund remains CONFIDENTIAL.

Do have a great day as we hope that you get this message.
Best regards,
Lee Wang

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