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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!

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From: "husseins family" <husseins_family_02@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:06:35 +0000
Subject: From Raghdad Hussein (Please Top Secret).


Miss. Raghdad Hussein And My Father,
 
From:      
Miss. Raghdad Hussein

Address: Jordanian Royal Family.
             
Amman.
Email:husseins_family_02@hotmail.co.uk
  
Attn/Director,
 
 
I am Raghdad Hussein, the first daughter of late president Sadam Hussein a mother of three children. Am 39 years old and I got your contact and profile through the internet. I know this message may come to you as a surprise there is information I would like you to keep Top confidential.
 
There is sum amount of money my late father Sadam Hussein deposited with Absa Bank of
South Africa through the assistance of our family lawyer Barrister Ziad al-Khosawneh and Barrister Harry Vincent. To avoid an eyebrow from the U.S government for the future investment of my family before he was killed by so called wicked American president George Bush.
 
I understood that this is not a fair judgment because the so called President Bush called my father 20 minutes before his death that didn't he told him that he will not spare him alive. After the week before his execution my father called to my noticed that he deposited a sum amount of fund in
South Africa with the help of our family lawyer Barrister Harry Vincent.
 
I am the first daughter of my father .I hope you understand the full details that led to that ugly incidents.
Presently I am staying in stylishly in a villa funded by the Jordanian royal family who has promised to protect me just to save my life and my three children. Iam not allowed participating in public life here in
Jordan.
 
The money in question is Ten Million united state dollars (US$10,000,000.00) U.S.Dollars.
 
What I would want you to do, is to assist me to transfer this said fund to your nominated bank account without the concept of the U S Government so that it cannot be traced as they may think that my family is taking the money for terrorist movement. In fact I need to leave a simple life here in
Jordan. Please all the communications have to be through email not by phone as you know they will be monitoring our families’ reactions.  I will like to invest this fund into business partnership with you.
 
For your financial assistance and effort to make sure this fund gets out of South Africa to your country, I will give you the 15% of the total fund for your assistance and 5% will be set aside for your financial assistance while the remaining 80% will be for my family investment in your country for the future of my children.
 
If you are interested, and can maintain the very confidentiality of this transaction, you can e-mail me immediately for more clearification, and also note that in exile as a refugee at the moment here in Jordan because of the killing of my Father, and the civil war going on in our country could not permit me to go back to my country (Iraq).
 
I can speak English, and my son Saddam who is 15 years also speaks good English. Note that you will travel down to South Africa to open a domiciliary bank account were the fund will be deposited with the help of our family lawyer. Listen carefully; I do not need to deal with any American citizens as I hate them. My father’s execution made me weep and hot tears but still I took up my role as the head of the family.
 
I don't believe that Muslim nations will keep silent towards U S attitude against my father’s execution because we all the Islamic nations know the focus of Bush is toward the
Iraq oil. I have asked our family lawyers to return to me the few belongings of my father had with him while on trial. I still love my father. I will never forget when my father embraced me.
 
For more detailed information kindly contact our Family Lawyer in
South Africa through the following information and you will fly down to South Africa to sign off the contract from my families name to your name as the beneficiary of the said fund. We will not accept any up front transfer from the bank as we would not fancy loosing the said fund. Note that this is the final hope of the entire family.
 
If you know you will not be able to visit South Africa please do not  attend this mail or contact me back as I need an honest person who will not be a betrayal to me and my family. Contact our family lawyer.
 
Name:                 Barrister Harry Vincent,
 
Telephone:         +27-73-911 8229
 
E-Mail;               harry_vincent_barrister@yahoo.com
 
Call him immediately for more discussion and do not hesitate to contact me on your discussion with him.
 
Yours Faithfully,
 
Miss Raghdad Hussein
For The Family


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