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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: "Hazim Issa" <hazim090@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hazim030@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:17:31 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL / CONFIDENTIAL

BUSINESS PROPOSAL / CONFIDENTIAL

Attn: Dear,
May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion with you by an
informal letter of this sort. It is pertinent that a business of this
magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting between you
and us to enable both parties know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the
nature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the
responsibilities and functions of both parties and appropriate shares
accordingly. But as a result of the urgency of this operation, I have
decided to contact you by E-mail to hear from you first before planning on
the next line of action.

My Name is Mr Hazim Issa, I am a vault Manager with a security company here
in Burkina Faso.This transaction if handled with outmost care and secrecy
will be successfully concluded within 10 days. In the year 2003 before the
beginning of the American led Coalition war in Iraq, a deposit of a
consignment was made here in our company by the late son of former President
of Iraq Saddam Huesein, Mr Qusai Hussein who was recently killed by the
American Soldiers in Iraq. Ouasai Hussein made this deposit personally and
no one in my office at this moment knows that the consignment belongs to him
only me and my friend who is the Computer Lodgment officer in our company.
We have tried to investigate the content of this box and found out that the
consignment contains money and in cash, worth US$65,000.000.00 (Sixty Five
Million dollars), deposited as Family Treasure.

We have therefore decided to find a way to take away this consignment from
our office and move the money out urgently. We are willing to offer you 40%
of the total sum and 10% for invetsments in your country while the rest will
be kept for us.

Hence we are looking for a trustworthy person internationally who will come
forward to claim this consignment. I have to make necessary arrangements for
the change of ownership of this consignment to anybody´s name who is willing
to work with us within 10 working days of receipt of the information. All we
need from you is to change the consignment ownership on your name so that no
one in our office will ever know what is going on and move the consignment
away from here to any of our company affiliate in other part of Europe where
it will be easy for you to claim the item. If this proposal meets your
interest please get back to me immediately by giving me your telephone
numbers to enable me give you further details on how we have planned to
carry this operation smoothly. As soon as I receive your response,I will
acquint you with further details regarding the transaction, Your urgent
response is awaited.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr Hazim Issa.

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