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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" <alessandro.massano@giovannimaino.it>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:57:59 +0200
Subject: I Need Your Help


FROM THE LITTLE GIRL: LY

PHHOUNG.
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH



Good day.
Please for security reasons

acknowledge to my courier

here: ly.Phhoung@hotmail.com

if you are willing and

interested.


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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