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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: "Oman Sadiq" <col_oman_sadiq1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: col_omansadiq@ureach.com
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:33:51 +0000
Subject: CONTACT ME URGENTLY

Good day,

It may surprise you to receive this e-mail from me,especially when we
haven't had any previous dealings.However I contacted you through this means
because I received encouraging information about you.

Secondly, I am using this means so that my personality can be sheilded until
I am sure of your willingness to assist me in achieving the purposes of this
business which will be of a high benefit to you and to my family.

I am Colonel Oman Sadiq Military Commander of POLISARIO (Political Front for
the Liberation of Western Sahara) and a member of council of the National
Secretariat of Western Sahara(Saharawi Democratic Republic). Prior to my
promotion to this rank/command, I was the second in command to the former
military Commander General Sahid Adbelahib. He was however killed in battle
in early May.

THE PURPOSE OF CONTACTING YOU:

The struggle for the liberation of the Saharawi people from the strong grip
of Morocco and it's despotic government,has enjoyed funding from
private,religious and corporate organizations around the world, people and
organizations recognizes our struggle.

These organizations are the ones who assist/aid POLISARIO with funds and
materials in execution of this war with Morocco. Before the death of my
former Military commander(General Adbelahib), we were given some funds
(US$35,000,000.00) by an international solid mineral multi- national company
donor to procure ammunitions for POLISARIO. My boss moved and deposited
these funds with a private security/finance company
in Europe.

In my bid to audit our quarterly accounts I realized that the records of the
$35Million was not reflected in the books. As I continued my private
investigation I unclosed the source of these funds. I found out that it was
my boss who deleted every record of this larges from the accounting books
because his intentions is to keep this particular funds for himself.

I called him to a meeting(two of us) over this issue - that was in
March last year. He told me at the meeting that the funds as part of the
donations POLISARIO (Political Front for the Liberation of Western Sahara)
get year in and year out is to be kept for his use and the future of his
family since the future of the survival of the struggle is uncertain. I saw
his reasons and readily agreed with him because he promised me a good
fraction of the money there and then, especially when I know that the money
will never have a record trace ever.

However, as fate may have it General Adbelahib died at the wafront and I
became the military commander in June 2nd. And in addition to that the only
person on earth who has previlege of knowing the information of this cash
deposit. I have allthe relevant documents pertaining to this deposit. I want
to claim this funds knowing fully well that I have all the relating
documents needed to claim these funds.

These documents are the Certificate of Deposit with which the Cash was
deposited, and also the Deposit Agreement. I therefore want you to
team/partner with me to collect the funds in Europe as I require a foreigner
to perfect this operation.Let me know your terms. I will provide all the
necessary documents in my disposal to lay claim to these funds -which as the
requirement agreed-upon with the security/finance
company.

The issue is this: I will transfer legal ownership of these funds to you so
that you can then be the new beneficiary of the funds that way my link to
the funds terminated,for a smooth movement of the funds to you. There are no
risks involved in this business because I remain here and hold all
machineries involved in this business.

I should also clearly state here that as long as you keep this business
confidential there is no means whereby risk can be imported to it. This is
because someone elses knowledge remain the only thing that can import any
risk to this deal. This is a simple and straight forward business, but must
be kept highly confidential so that we can record success in it within the
next 10 working days. Upon the receipt of a positive response from you, I
will give you further details; outliningthe method of operation which has
been mastered to pull this transaction through soonest.

Therefore, if you are interested, please do reach me via e-mail while I
perfect a better communication means for this project. Let me reiterate it
again, I will want everything about this transaction to be treated in
strictest confidence even if you are not interested.

I await your response.

Yours Sincerely,
Col.Oman Sadiq.
Military Commander,
Western Sahara.

Alternative email address : col_omansadiq@ureach.com


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