419 scam: "Mr. Wong Fai (HK)" <hkproject@126.com> Dear Prospective Partner

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- grprojects@126.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Wong Fai (HK)" <hkproject@126.com>
Reply-To: hkprojects@126.com
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 04:21:00 -0800
Subject: Dear Prospective Partner

Dear Prospective Partner,

Thank you for kind attention to this email. My specialty is private funds,
classified investments, financial placements, and capital and money
management services.

This is a request to engage you for a business opening that can earn you
as much as US$3.3M guaranteed in the shortest term (3-4 weeks).
But the deal is that you must be willing to assist the wife of my former
boss Mr. Zhou Yongkang.
She is a woman who is interested in developing new relationships outside
Asia and she has appealed to me as a close family friend to help her find
a trusted foreign partner under whose identity the sum of $33 million can
be relocated out of Hong Kong.

I have accepted the challenge to help her, hence my open public letter to
you. Please follow the web link below for the latest profile of my former
boss Mr. Zhou Yongkang.

http://www.scmp.com/topics/zhou-yongkang

If you are interested, please get back to me through the project email
address: << grprojects@126.com >> for further details, terms and
conditions.

Sincerely,
Mr. Wong Fai (Former Director ICBC, Ltd)
Project Email: grprojects@126.com

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