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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: "Dr. Mahadul Usman" <mahadul_usman@she.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mahadul_usman@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:55:58 -0700
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONCE PLEASE ( Attention Director )

From : Mr.Mahadul Usman
Address : Bangkok, Thailand
Email : mahadul_usman@yahoo.com


Dear Sir,

Good day to you and your family, I know you may be suprise to receive my email, after going through your profile from your country trade journal I decieded to unfold my investment plan to you of which I am convince as to seek for your assistance and help. Before I proceed I like to introduce myself to you. I am Dr.Mahadul Usman the son of late Engr. Al-Sumaidai Usman of Islamic republic of Iraq, My late father was the former chiarman of National Democratic Party in Iraq. He was killed by Saddam Hussein followers after US invasion of Iraq because of his role as a leader of a political party which oppose to Saddam Hussein dictectorship, before his death he was able to confirm to us of an existence deposit of $9.5m ( Nine Million Five hundred thousand US Dollars ) which he secretly deposited CASH in a oversea finance and security Bank for safe keeping through diplomatic system in Bangkok -Thailand for security reason.

I arrived here in Thailand along with my mother June 2004 after the invasion of Iraq by United State of America where I sought and was granted assylum under the protection of ( UNHCR ) United Nation High Commission on Refugee due to continue crisis in Iraq. Unfortunately my mother was killed in phuket in southern Thailand on 26th December 2004 by tsunami wave and her body swept away by the sea, uptill this moment her body have never been found and this situation turned my life totaly to an orphan without guidance.

Already I have certisfied the existence of the fund in the finance and security Bank as a legitimate owner with all the documents of the fund in my position as the next of kin of the fund. every process and arrangement with the security vault management for claiming of the fund from the security Bank have just been concluded but due to my current status here as a political refugee I am not entitle to handle such huge amount of cash in respect to anti labour law of Thailand.

For the above reason I have decided to seek for an assistance and help from you as a foreign partner to enable us reach an INVESTMENT partnership agreement to invest this fund in a profitable business orientation in your country under long time joint venture partnership as this will enable me to entrust the investment in your care and management on a long time joint venture partnership.
In your acceptance to my proposal I will be willing to offer the following.

(1) I will offer a 15% reasonable percentage from the total fund as a reward for all your help in transferring and investing the fund in your country

(2) I will map out 5% of the total fund to meet up any expences made by both parties during the transaction

Kindly regard my contact to you through email as my only althernative for the security of the transaction and for further information and proceedures i will be expecting your soonest reply as soon as possible.

As soon as I get your immediate responce I will forward my direct contact phone number to you so that we can directly discuss further to finalize every arrangement needed.Thank you

Yours Sincerely
Dr. Mahadul Usman



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