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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. Stacey Khalid bin Saqr al Qasseemi" <staceyqassemi@mail2world.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: staceyqassem@qassem.cc
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:35:51 +0400
Subject: TRADE ENQUIRY

Sir

I was privileged to come across your contact
through my personal check with the EHX Spring
2006 Exhibition List in ORANGE COUNTY
CONVENTION CENTER Orlando, Florida and I
decided that I should establish a communication
with you to acquiring some information on
lucrative investment or trade establishment
in your country.

Be it as it may, I will appreciate if you can
be of good assistance to me as I am willing to
invest my money with you in your country
provided I will have a good partner or investor
as well fund manager who will guild on this
business framework and as thus, share with me
the dividend in any venture which we have
considered lucrative to invest in and I have
not managed any business before but have always
dreamt of running my own establishment hence
my desire to recapitalize in your countries
trade market.

Further to this, I will like to give you a
little more information about me, I am an
American but married into the Sharjah Royal
Family here in Sharjah United Arab Emirate,
but at the moment undergoing a divorce case
with my husband through the sharia court and
hopefully will get this matter over within a
couple of weeks and that is why I want to
calve a niche for myself to be able to
continue with my life and make my life
meaningful when I leave my husband’s family.
The funds I intend to invest with you is
currently in a UAE bank here as was deposited
by my late father who worked before he died
as a chemical engineer in the Saudi Oil
Corporation ARAMCO and later the Emirate
National Oil Corporation ENOC.

My reason of trying to establish my own
business is necessitated by the advent of my
divorce suite with my husband and according
to the sharjah marital law here, if my husband
family gets any knowledge of the funds in the
bank, they will take possession of the funds
since my father used my name as the next of kin.

It is my wish to handle this matter privately
under the most cautious legal arrangement to
get the funds into your possession before we
can commence any trade deal and therefore
demand that you kindly give me a brief
information about you with pictures, contact
address and telephone numbers incase I want
to call you .

pls can you tell me if you can deal with my
lawyer who practice in Abu Dhabi – U.A.E as
the funds I wish to invest into the business
is in a bank there and I will like to get
you introduced to my lawyer who is also an
American and works with the emirate
international law firm.

the money in question (US$9,750,000) was
deposited into the bank about two years back
before my father died of heart failure and
ever since his death, my relationship with my
husband has gone bad due to the fact that I’ve
been married to him for six years now and we
have no issue.

My lawyer advised that what we shall do is to
portray you as an investor who has given that
money to my father before he died for a crude
oil lifting from the Saudi oil corporation but
the deal was thwarted due the sudden death of
my father.

By this strategy, the lawyer will present some
letter of administration and application to
the bank for the release of the funds to you
under the emirate inheritance law. This
logistics is to get the funds transferred to
you as the bonafide owner of the funds to avoid
any implications that will not permit me as
being married to the royal family to possess
such chattel or estate of my late father in
conformity with the sharia marital law.

So I hope you understand very well, the
strategies and where you don’t quite comprehend,
do ask me for more clarifications and for your
involvement I will pay you 15% of the total money
for your consultancy and then we can invest the
rest still under your supervision.

Mrs. Stacey Khalid ibn Saqr al Qasseemi



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