419 scam: "Mohammad Sahid"<mohammad@yahoo.com> Reply Urgently!!!

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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:

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:
- "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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mohammad Sahid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mohammadsahid72@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:05:39 -0800
Subject: Reply Urgently!!!

Attention:

My name is Mohammad Sahid, the personal accountant to late Mark MAGDY, a nationality of your country who is a mining contractor in malaysia. My client and his family travelled to Sendai – Japan on a social trip,on the 11th of March 2011, the entire family was wiped out by the 8.9 magnitude earthquake / tsunami that hit Japan recently.

My client has an account valued of US$8,700,000.00 with financial house in Malaysia which will be confiscated in few years.He did not indicate any next of kin before he died,and according to Malaysian fund regulatory policy, any fund belonging to a foreign deceased customer and left unclaimed will be forwarded to the Central Bank of Malaysia reserve account.

I am contacting you to stand as the next of kin to my deceased client since i have given the details,I guarantee that this transaction will work successful in a legitimate arrangement. You need to send an application to the financial house in Malaysia to process the release of US$8,700,000.00 to you as the beneficiary. I agree that 60% of the total fund will be for you and your family for securing the fund into your account, while I get 40% which I intend to use for setting up an orphanage home here in Malaysia.

I will be waiting to hear from you soon.

Kind regards,
Mohammad Sahid.

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