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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: "Sunisa Thepsuwanthe" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sunisa.thepsuwanthe@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:47:47 +0700
Subject: Your assistant is Needed


Good day to you,

My name is Sunisa Thepsuwanthe wife of Alexandre Cazes owner and founder of Alpha Bay darknet, My husband was arrested and later died in Bangkok jail after the shutdown of online market. And currently some of his asset has been seized by Thai government which includes $21 million, right now the government are after me because some of his assets are registered in my name.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-drugs/thailand-seizes-21-million-in-assets-from-dead-founder-of-dark-net-marketplace-alphabay-idUSKBN1A90ZE

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/18/suspected-alphabay-founder-dies-in-bangkok-jail-while-online-black-market-remains-closed/?utm_term=.9c91e12c46f7

Right now I'm doing everything I could to make sure I have something left to take care of his unborn baby as I'm currently pregnant with his baby and I want you help in order to help secure what we have left, My English is not very good and I want you treat this email confidential.

Currently I have $5 Million deposited with an international bank and I want you to contact the bank and make sure you help facility the transfer, I know this sounds too good to be true and you might be thinking why I contact you, I want you to be rest assured that you are safe and I would rather let stranger get this money than the corrupt Thai government.
$5 Million and also 10 Thai gold bar, 96.5% pure gold, with other Thai jewelries, everything worth $1Million.
And I'm also in search of new live outside of Thailand if we can get this done and along with the government issues here.

Kindly get back to me as soon as you can if you would like to help me, Right now I'm under Thai government surveillance, I can only send and check email once or twice a week, and this email is been sent to you via a very secured server so be rest assured.

Kindly disregard this email if you think you've received this email in error.

Thanks
Sunisa Thepsuwanthe

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