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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Lai Turk Yew" <laiturkyew@fsmail.net> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:39:13 +0800
Subject: Dear Associate,
Dear Associate,
First and foremost I would like to apologize for infringing on your privacy by
sending you this mail, I would have given you a call, but rather I decided to
contact you via an email to get us acquainted since it is a safer way of private
communication. If you must know, I came about your contact information
through a random search with my client's name on the Internet while trying to
locate any link to him.
I am Dr. Lai Turk Yew a personal account adviser/officer to a great late
industrialist who has an account in one of the top banks here in Malaysia. He
died few years ago without a written or an oral will to the best of my knowledge
from the information I gathered from his attorney here in Malaysia. Since then
nobody has operated on his account again. Hence,the sums of money in this account
is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing since the bank has been sold on Monday, 19 September 2005 to another
bank and the management of the bank are now ready to release the funds to any
foreigner who has the correct information of the account before fully handing
over the management to the new bank. The owner of this account is a foreigner and
no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary. My investigation through the National immigration
department proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry
into Malaysia.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment.
Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank
will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I
will give you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me.
Essentially, before I will disclose the said amount to you, I must solicit your
strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being
utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability
to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to
enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment.
You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new bank account
immediately to receive this money, even an empty bank account can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important
business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or
in future.
As soon as I hear from you, and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me
down once the fund goes into your account I will then start to process the transfer
of the fund to your account without further delay.
If interested contact me urgently for further details at: laiturkyew@gmail.com
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Lai Turk Yew
Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia
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