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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: SMITH SUSAN <zzansmith2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: centraldata.desk1@onet.pl
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:14:11 +0100
Subject: NOT JUNK(OUR REFERENCE TO PARTNERSHIP & PROPERTY PROCUREMENT)

Dear Sir,
It is with an honour I send you this mail, my name is Barr.Abdul Kahar
from Brunei based in London, UK. We are in procurement business and we
also stand as middlemen (inter media)in linking our various clients to
professionals.

Permit me to inform you that I came across your contact two days ago
when I was searching for Real Estate professionals to link up to my
client who needs a highly knowledgeable property procurement
individual or firm. My investor is an Ex-petroleum minister from one
of the oil rich countries who want his loot while in office to be
used for property investment in your country or anywhere in the world
where there is peace and high commercial activities that can uphold
his business interest.

As an ex-minister, he wants to remain unknown until introduction is
made and he evaluates your profile more with the presentation of his
project. The fund for the investment is available and sufficient on a
round table discussions. If you are such a personality or knows who is
capable to enter into negotiations with us and our client do write
back to me on the following contacts below:

Contact name: Barr.Abdul Kahar Tl: +44-703-5989-324 Email:
barr.abdul.kaharr@hotmail.com or directly to :

our client/investor on Email: application_de@onet.pl . Do request him
for more details of the project.

Note, other related explanations will be better put to table on
receipt of your mail showing interest

in the above proposal.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours Sincerely
Barr. Abdul Kahar

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