419 scam: "Lam Yuet King"<ceofirst0093@gmail.com> Payment Agent

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "% of every payment" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
This email message is a company representative scam. This type of job offer scam involves the cashing of fake checks and money orders. It could expose you to losses of tens of thousands of dollars as well as to the risk of criminal prosecution and (in some cases) imprisonment.

Fraud email example:

From: "Lam Yuet King" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ceofirst0093@live.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:07:32 -0700
Subject: Payment Agent

Attn:Receipient

I am Lam Yuet King.My company First Chemicals China was established in 2002.First Chemicals is an innovative, reliable supplier and manufacturer of high quality biochemicals, amino acids, pharmaceutical intermediates,herb extracts, oleochemicals, agrochemicals, dyes and pigments, industrial and specialty chemicals, surfactants and cleaning chemicals, for scientific and industrial applications.

I write to solicit your assistance in working with me as my payment agent who can help me establish a medium of getting to my customers in Canada and the United States of America as well as making payments through you to me via bank to bank wire transfer.

You will be paid 10% of every payment made through you to me and subject to your satisfaction you will be given instructions to follow including opening an account for this transaction and services as my Representative/Payment agent.

Please if you are interested, do forward to me your response for more details.

Thank you as i await your further response.

Faithfully Yours,

Lam Yuet King

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