419 scam: "ANDY LAU"<andylauboa@gmail.com> ATTENTION; DID YOU AUTHORISE LEE FUI FUI

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "ANDY LAU" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andylau224@yahoo.cn>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:35:16 -0500
Subject: ATTENTION; DID YOU AUTHORISE LEE FUI FUI

ATTENTION

I am very happy to inform you that your fund with the Bank of China, has been approved and is ready to be transferred into the beneifciary's account.

How ever, one LEE FUI FUI from Malaysia, holder of the account bellow,

NAME OF BANK : CIMB BANK MALAYSIA
HOLDER NAME: LEE FUI FUI
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 14200066873528
BRANCH/ADDRESS : PWTC 2 KUALA LUMPUR 56000 MALAYSIA
SWIFT CODE: CIBBMYKL

contacted the bank here with the above account information and he insists on having the fund transferred to him reasons being that you authorised him to take care of all the legal fees involved and have the fund wired to his account.

In this regard, we would like you to confirm Mr. LEE FUI FUI's claim if you actually authorised him to recieve your fund. If on the other hand you did not authourise him to recieve your fund, then please you should get back to this office to reconfirm the information bellow;

1. YOUR FULL NAME

2. YOUR DIRECT PHONE NUMBERS

3. YOUR HOME OR OFFICE ADDRESS

4. YOUR BANKING INFORMATION.

5.THE AMOUNT YOU ARE TO RECEIVE.

Please do get back to me immediately so we can proceed with the transfer process.

Regards

Andy Lau

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