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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: "Ali"<vahidali@myway.com>
Reply-To: vahid_ali77@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 02:25:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: REPLY ASAP










Assalam-Allekium.Greetings from Dubai, I am a Fund Manager with Alexandria Investment Dubai-UAE. and I handle all our Investor's Capital Project Funds that enables me to divert 1.2% Investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our Magellan Trust Funds Account whereby anyone can be presented to claim the funds. On this note, the total sum of Thirty five million five hundred thousand dollars (US$35.5M) has been diverted representing the 1.2% Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investor Capital Project Funds for 2005/2006.I need a reliable and trustworthy person that can work this deal out with me so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above.I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it very serious.There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be traced or marked as money laundering. Our sharing ratio is 50/50. If you are interested, please reply as soon as possible for discussion of this deal, so that I will not look for
another person. Sincerely, Ali Vahid.



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