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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: Yugiang Xiao <leadsway0001@gmail.com>
Reply-To: xiaoyugiang24@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:48:58 -0400
Subject: Your urgent attention needed

Greetings,



I know that this email message would be a surprise to you but kindly read
it carefully and you will understand the reason I am contacting you for
this purpose. However, this correspondence is not official but private, we
should keep it private, therefore, I also guarantee you that this
transaction is free from all what you may think of.



I am Mr. Yuqiang Xiao; Chairman of ICBC US Management Committee/General
Manager of ICBC New York Branch. I am contacting you based on trust and
confidentiality that is needed in this transaction. The Management and the
Legal department of our bank (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (USA)
NA) in a recent meeting recommended that the account of late Mr. Roman Blum
was one of my branch depositor, should be declared Dormant, confiscated and
the depositor's fund sent to the Bank Treasury, in contravention of U.S.A
Banking and financial law. Late Roman Blum died in January 2012. The bank
has made several efforts to contact any of his relatives to claim this
money but without success confiscated the fund.



Late Mr. Roman Blum was an account holder in my branch; he owns a dollar
account with an enormous sum of money deposited in a Secret account with my
branch. In fact, since his death, no next of kin of the account holder nor
any relative of his has shown up for the claim of this fund, this is
because he has the account as a secret account thus he left all the
documents for the bank deposit to me.



This is where I am interested and where I want you to come in, I want you
to come in as a relative of the deceased; do not bother that you are not in
any way related to him because I can affix your name as the next of kin to
the deceased and no one will question it since I am the officer in charge
of the dormant and non-existing accounts. I will give you the relevant
documents and contacts to apply and then I will influence the approvals for
transferring the fund to your nominated bank account. I will be the one to
provide the vital documents for the claim of this money and then advise you
exactly on how we should handle it.



Please include your telephone number when responding to this message so I
can call to give you more information on how to proceed. The whole
Procedure will last only 14 work days to get the fund retrieved
successfully without trace even in the future. After transferring the money
to your nominated bank account, we shall share the money 60-40, which is I
will have 60% while you will have 40%. Do not bother about the success of
this transaction as I am in the best position to make it succeed.



Kindly respond promptly showing your intent on this proposal so that I can
advise you on what to do next, I will wait to hear from you.



Yours truly,

Yuqiang Xiao.

ICBC Bank, New York Branch

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