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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: "Ms. Kyung Min Oh" <james.joijoi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ohkyung433@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:15:58 -0800
Subject: Re: GOOD NEWS FOR YOU FROM THAILAND.

Hello Dear,

My name is Kyung Min Oh, a Senior Executive Internal Auditor with Bank
of Ayudhya Thailand. In the year 2008, an investment was made by one
of our clients by name Mr. David Mutombo, a South African from the
Republic of South Africa. Mr. Mutombo was a well-known politician in
South Africa and was into Mining and Sales of precious stones. I
happened to be late Mr. Mutombo’s personal Advisor as he came to our
bank for the investment, Mr. Mutombo also disclosed a lot to me on how
he made his money through the South African political system. Late Mr.
Mutombo made a number of financial investments through our portfolio,
amounting to $10,700,000.00 (Ten Million Seven Hundred Thousand U.S
dollars) for Twelve Calendar months since 2010, but this financial
investment deposit was abandoned and unattended to.

Upon maturity of the investment, and as His Personal Advisor, I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but got no response.
After a month, I sent a reminder, and finally, I discovered from my
investigations, that Mr. David Mutombo died with his immediate family
members in a plane crash that happened in Libya in the year 2010, and
below is a link for your view of the plane crash:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html

As a Banker, I am very much aware of all the Financial Laws of the
land/Bank of Ayudhya Thailand, and to that effect, all unattended
deposits beyond Thirteen years will be forfeited to the state. Hence,
I decided to get hold of this opportunity, knowing that Mr. Mutombo
did not include any Next-of-Kin when making the investment deposit.
so, to avoid the fund from being confiscated by the State, I decided
to contact you, and solicit to present you as late Mr. David Mutombo's
Next-of-kin and then have the Bank of Ayudhya legally transfer the
10.7m abandoned investment deposit to you. Please, this transaction
must be carried out legally and professionally, we will engage the
services of a solicitor to ensure that all documents are legally and
professionally obtained.

Most importantly, the Investment consulting director with the Bank of
Ayudhya Thailand is a partner in this transaction, as such, we are
100% guaranteed success and a risk-free transaction.

I await your response, in order to provide you with more details on
how this transaction would be carried out legally and successfully.
Please note that this information should be handled with utmost
discretion and confidentiality.

Sincerely,
Ms. Kyung Min Oh
Senior Executive Internal Auditor
1222, Rama III Road, Bang Phongphang,
Yan Nawa, Bangkok 10120 Thailand.

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