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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: Gui Anvanith <guianvanith1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: guianvanith2@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:44:08 +0330 (IRST)
Subject: Kindest Regard


From
Mr. Gui Anvanith
No.3, Street Kramuon Sar
Sangkat Phsar Tmey 1
Khan Daun Penh
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

October 10, 2011.

I am Mr. Gui Anvanith, the general manager of foreign trade bank(FTB) of Cambodia. I personally discovered a dormant account with a total sum of $68,000,000.00 [SIXTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS] during our Bank's Annual Year Account Auditing. Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account till date. I mean NO BODY! Moreover, this account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it. Definitely, our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS will confiscate this fund if it remains dormant for a period of [7] year without no claims. In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund.

HOW THE TRANSACTION CAN BE HANDLED: As the general manager of our bank, all our client account details and file are in my possession and that makes it easy for me to include your name as the beneficiary of the fund in all necessary documents involving the money we wish to transfer out from our bank. the most importantly, ACT AS THE ORIGINAL BENEFICIARY OF THE FUNDS AND RECEIVE THE FUNDS INTO A BUSINESS/PRIVATE BANK ACCOUNT.

Should you be interested to work with me in this project, I can make you his legal beneficiary of the money he deposited in our bank which will enable our bank to release the fund to you. Once the money is released to you, I will immediately come down with my family to meet you for sharing. Our sharing ratio will be 60% for you and 40% for me. Kindly view my identification link below.

http://ftbbank.com/downloads/AnnualReport10_En.pdf

Kindly get back to me only if you are interested to work with me for more information and Guideline.
I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.

Kindest Regards
Mr.Gui Anvanith
General manager
foreign trade bank(FTB) of Cambodia




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