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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: "Mrs. suha." <infosuha_araf@plasa.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: infosuha_arafat@luxmail.com
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:42:52 +0400
Subject: ENDEVOUR TO READ

ATTN:



Compliment's.I am sorry to use this medium of communication, is due to
my present situation right now. first of all let me start by introducing
my self. I am SUHA ARAFAT the wife to late president YESSER ARAFAT.I
presently based in Paris i am 41 years old with my only daurgther of nine
years. I am the closest to him and also with him the very day he died in
the hospital. before the death of
my husband he made known to me all his wealth including funds in the
security company in
switzerland, Canada Luxembourg U.A.E. and Austria.in 1995 and 2000 a part
payment of £ 300 million was paid by the Israeli government on oil sales
directly into my husbands account in Europe which all the particulars &
document was kept under my care and i had made it known to only but my
fudicuary agent MR YUSUF SAED BAZZAQ. Between july 2002 and september 2003 my husband made a payment of £ 6.22 million into my account which he used for accomplishment of one of his project in Ramaliah. since the
death of my husband. MR TAWFIG AL- GHUSSEIN, Chairman of the
British-based committee for free and Democratic palestine has been pointing
accussation fingers on me, also enormous criticism from the
palestine leadership were anxious that i might control a substantial
portion of PLO'S investment portfolio, which is estimated to exceed £ 6 billion.Because of all this i have dicided to move some of my late husbands funds outside the country for an investment poposes. Part of this money i want to invest in buying Hotles in (U.A.E) United Arab Emirate Dubai, or any part of the world.I will want to start by transfering the funds in (U.A.E) Which is about $24.2m dollars.
I went through alot of reseach and inquaries on internet due to
insincerelity of people this days, i dicided on my mind to use your contact.
please i will like you to be a trust worthy personal.
Your commission will be 20% of each delivery of fund that
comes into your account. Please reply me through this e-mail address:
infosuha_arafat@luxmail.com <mailto:infosuha_arafat@luxmail.com>. I will also
arrange a safe telephone line for this transaction in a couple of days
for
security reasons.
Best Regards.

MISS SUHA ARAFAT




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