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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: akmeiI brahim <akmeiIbrahim@Attorney.com>
Reply-To: akmei.taha@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:27:40 +0800
Subject: Good Day

Attention:
Well, I am Zaid Ibrahim, a Solicitor and the Personal Attorney to Late Mr. Ahmad , a national of your country , who was a Petro Chemical Engineer and Consultants contracted with Malaysian Petroleum SA.

My client, His wife and their two Children were involved in earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 in Japan. Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the earthquake and tsunami. Since then I have made several enquirer to your Embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail,that is why I contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind by my late client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank here. Meanwhile the main reason i contacted you is because you has the same last name with my late client.

These huge deposits were lodged particularly; with the "HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad" An affiliate of Commercial Bank of Asia,where the Deceased had an account valued about $21.2 million dollars, (Twenty One Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only),By my Late client before his death on March 11th, 2011,I need this informations from you so that i will send to you an application form for the Procedure.

Your Full name...........
Your Phone number........
Your Address.............
Your Age.................
Your Occupation..........

l await for your urgent respond as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
Barr. Zaid Ibrahim.


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