419 scam: "Miss Yunxu J. Chen" <alexedward797@gmail.com> Goodday

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- yunxujchen111@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Yunxu J. Chen" <alexedward797@gmail.com>
Reply-To: yunxujchen111@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 19:22:49 +0400
Subject: Goodday

Goodday,

Thanks for the response, I am Miss Yunxu J. Chen, Account officer here in
Shanghai, China, I am the head of the account department. I am pleased to
get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal which
I believe will benefit both of us on completion. I contacted you after a
careful thought that you might be capable of handling this business
transaction

The sum of (4,500,000.00 Million USD), has been floating as unclaimed since
April in our late client bank account as all efforts to get across to the
relatives of our client who deposited the money with the Bank here in China
hit the stones. On 29 April, 2020, Mr. Kahle Geevarghese, Evlyne, his wife,
and their son Michael all died with the infection of Covid-19 in Shanghai
International Hospital here in China.

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless because there wasn't a
next of kin on the deposit certificate that was issued to him. My position
here at my office requires me to investigate and I therefore made further
investigations and discovered that my late client did not declare any next
of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his bank
deposit paperwork.

According to the China Law. The money will revert to the ownership of the
China government if nobody applies to claim the funds. To avoid this money
being sent to the China treasury as unclaimed funds, I have decided to seek
your assistance to have you stand as the next of kin so that the funds (
4,500,000.00 million USD), would be released in your name as the next of
kin and paid into your account. All documents and proof that will have you
claim this funds will be forwarded to you without any stress upon your
response to this mail, I want to inform you that I have unanimously agreed
to offer you (50%) of the total sum for the assistance and role you are
going to play in this transaction, Been the account officer I will hired
attorney to prepared all the documentation to make you the sole Benefactor
of the Will. Please reply to me here (yunxujchen111@gmail.com ) if you are
interested in your reply to this transaction.

Kind regards,

Yunxu J Chen

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