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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: "LY PHHOUNG" <lepore@atbconsulting.it>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:29:37 +0200
Subject: Please, this is important




FROM THE LITTLE GIRL: LY PHHOUNG.
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH


Good day.

Please for security reasons acknowledge to my courier here: dfernando.capecchi@yahoo.com if you are willing.

Please I am writing you this mail with trust and faith that you will sincerely assist me as your daughter or sister as I really don’t know where to go from here. I urge you to have mercy on me because I’m in desperate condition right now and i need your help urgently, strongly believing that you will not betray this trust I am reposing in you. My late father Mr. Sam Phhoung before his tragic death in a plane crash which took place in Vietnam.

He deposited the sum of ($5.5 million Dollars which is 22,389,400,000.00 in Cambodian riel) in a bank here in PHNOM PENH. As his only daughter, he told me that he wanted to use the money for investment in real estate business in either, America, Asia or Europe.

I went to the bank all alone to make a claim on my father’s wealth. But the bank rejected me because I am not up to 18 years. And they further asked me to provide either his foreign partner or any of my father’s relatives. But unfortunately my father was the only son of his parents and now I am the only daughter he got.

I am therefore seeking your assistance and advice to invest the money in your country or any other country you seem safe and secure in a lucrative business while i go back to school because you will also help me relocate to your country. On request, I will show you some of the documents relating to this deposit. Kindly get back to me if you can handle the projects and investment the money

Please on your return mail send me your telephone number, I will call you if am able to because of my situation here.

Yours Faithfully.
Ly Phhoung

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