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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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From: "Huda Salih Ammash" <huda_ammash2003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: huda_ammash2003@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:24:59 -0400
Subject: your assistance

Dear i am miss Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash daughter of the late Interior
minister and RCC vice chairman Salih Mahdi Ammash (+1983); senior officer in
charge of germ weaponry development and member of the Baath's Regional
Command here in Iraq,please i am in need of your assistance .I was taken
into custody of US military in Baghdad on May 4,2003.and was Released on 19
Dec 2005.
Please as a result of the position in the government during this time, there
is some funds i recovered from my father's office before his death about $38
Million US dollars i want to move the money out from this country (iraq). My
condition after the stay in the military custody is very bad i need to leave
this country for my life and I need a good and trustworthy person who will
render a help to me so that i can leave this country.This fund is resulted
from oil bunkeering deal that was why my Father as the senior officer in
charge of germ weaponry development get hold of the money.I can arrange for
the movement of this money to you,all i need from you is your mutual trust
and understanding.
This transaction is free from all sort of risk.You will be covered in this
as i will present you as my business partner if you can assist in this
beneficial business deal.
The only safer means we are going to move this fund out to you is through a
diplomatic courier company, so that the will be directly to you and you will
find a save acccount where you will deposit it for safe keeping.
why i want us to use the diplomatic courier service is that they are good
and the safeiest and the easiest means of moving such amount of fund out
that runs into millions. The most important thing is that i can trust you
and can be able to offer $8 million to you if only you can be honest to me
and assist me till the end of this.
Please don't panic on this for i will do all about the movement here and
direct the diplomatic company to you for the delivery fo the fund to your
home direct,thereafter you can take it to your bank for safe keeping for me
to come over to you.
Please reply back quick and i will furnish you with more details on how we
can move the fund out from here. But the whole process is simple. Waiting
for your positive response.

Thanks:Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash.

please if you want to know more about me you can visit to this
link:http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:R2bmpXIgb14J:www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/iraq.htm+u.s+military+leaders+in+iraq&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4

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