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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Yongyuth Yuthavong" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <yongyuth1430@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:53:02 -0700
Subject: US$,6,440,000,00 Risk- free Business offer

US$6,440,000.00 risk-free business offer


Good day to you, I am Dr. Yongyuth Yuthavong, a Director and Member of the Corporate Governance Committee and Audit Committee with Kasikorn Bank of Thailand. On the 12th of September 2003 a certain foreigner/business man registered an account with online access with our bank. He deposited the sum of US$7,000,000 into the account and made only one withdrawal of US$560,000 throughout the period he operated the account and till date the account balance remains US$6,440,000. He lived in Thailand and successfully invested in various sectors of the Thai economy. He died on the 29th of May 2008 at a Bangkok private hospital.

He didn't add any next of kin to his account and he only used his then Bangkok residential address when opening the account and included his nationality. Since the 30th of May 2008 the Kasikorn Bank and her experienced search team has made several efforts within and outside the territories of Thailand to locate anyone close to him all to no avail. My bank is now making arrangements to forward his $6,440,000.00 to the Thailand Government and confiscate his account if the search team cannot locate any of his relative or next of kin within the next 90 days. I do not want this to happen knowing very well that only few top corrupt Thailand Government officials will share the $6,440,000.00 between themselves.

The deal here is that I will want you to stand as the next of kin to the deceased and claim the $6,440,000.00 from our bank and at the end you will take %40 of the $6,440,000.00 which is over $2,500,000 and I will give you a private account of mine where you will transfer the balance %60 for me. I have the necessary documents which I will send to you at the right time and you will forward them to our bank as prove of your being the next of kin to the deceased.

A quick reply from you will be appreciated so that I can know if you are interested in this deal. Lastly, I want you to know that there is nothing to be scared about in the process of completing this transaction. I have carefully looked into it from various angle and I am full of confidence that everything will work out as I have already planned. With my position at the bank, nothing will go wrong.

If you are interested in this risk-free transaction, then reply to: yongyuth1430@yahoo.co.jp with the following information of yours:

Full names
Nationality
Home address
Contact telephone and mobile numbers
Age, sex, occupation and job title.


Best Regards,
Dr. Yongyuth Yuthavong.
Director,
Member of the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee.
Kasikorn Bank of Thailand.

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