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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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Fraud email example:

From: "patricia Qasseemi" <patricia200ad@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:51:14 +0100
Subject: Mrs. Patricia Khalid Al Qasseemi (See Attachment)

my dear VICTIMNAME,


first, i will thank you for responding to my mail even when you do not know
me at first, i must also thank you for understanding the trouble of which i
face presently with my husband and decided to help me, note also that i will
always be and remain greatful to you in every aspect as long as both of us
can establish and maintain a long lasting business relationship that will be
for mutual interest.


before i go further, i will like to know your profession and age, are you
employed or working for your own establishment, what about your status, are
you married?


i hope you dont get offended by my questions just that as a woman, i will
like to know few things about whom am dealing with. for me i temporarily
worked in a real estate firm in Los Angeles, USA as an accountant before i
joined my father in saudi arabia and later abu-dhabi U.A.E prior to my
meeting with my husband from the sharjah ruling family.


however, i quite comprehend the need for proper awareness of the banking and
financial ethics visible in your country as well as UAE and the lawyer i
have in mind to work for us in this matter being an expereinced financial
attorney with so many years of experience is capable enough to handle this
matter and to ensure that there is no breach of financial regulations in the
2 countries hence he will imply the full scale probate proceedings to
transfer ownership of the funds to you with all government approvals in
conformity with the existing emirate inheritance law and principles. all
these probate approvals the lawyer will secure from the government will be
submitted to the bank where the fund was deposited for bank's endorsement
and final approval of transfer of funds to you as legal heirs.


finally, once the bank transfers the funds to your nominated account in, all
documents partaining to the funds as issued by the UAE government will be
sent to you which you will also need to present to your government upon the
maturity of the funds into your account if there is need for that, i am also
aware of the tax there to be paid and you will need to pay that from the
money when transferred and then you will also take your 15% of the money as
we agreed and the rest will be set aside for our investment as you will
advice.


i will like to inform you about some other plans i have when i come over to
your country because as soon as i get final ruling from the court on the
divorce suit, i shall be coming over to meet you and by then, the funds
would have been transferred to you as i know that the process will not take
more than 10 days once we starts the legal proceedings with a hired
attorney. so i hope to hear from you very urgently to enable me give you te
contact of a lawyer i have in mind that we should consult for this matter, i
do not want to contact him myself because i want a situation whereby you
will contact him as my late father's business partner.


yours patricia

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