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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: Hamzah Omar <ham_must310@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 05:31:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Mutual Trust


Confidential Notice:

This mail transmission is been sent by a lawyer. It
contains information that is confidential, privileged,
proprietary, or otherwise legally exempt from
disclosure. There is no intent on the part of the
sender to waive any privilege,including the
attorney-client privilege, that may attach to this
communication.

Attention,
My name is Mr.Hamzah Mustafah
Omar a legal practitioner with Hamzah Omar's Chambers
in KualaLumpur,Malaysia.

I saw your contact and profile and decided that you could
cooperate with me in this proposition.I have a client
who was deceased in November, 2004, in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

I am contacting you because you have the same surname as
my deceased client and felt that you could help me in the
distribution of funding that were left in my deceased
client's bank account.

This funding is closed to be declare dun-serviceable by
the bank as there were no indicated next of kin or next
of beneficiary of the funding in the bank account.The
total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased
client is US$ 13.5 Million ( Say, Thirteen Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States dollars Only ),The bank
had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin
of my deceased client for either to re-activate the bank
account or to make claim of beneficiary, of the
funding in the bank account, with a month surcharge of
6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of the
bank account,so as to avoid the indefinite closure of
the bank account.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to
present your kind self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary
of my deceased client,since you have the same last name
with him.This means that the proceeds of his bank account
would be paid to you as his next of kin or the
legitimate beneficiary. When the proceeds in his bank
account are paid to you, we would share the proceeds
on a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60%to me and
40% to your kind self.All the legal documents to back
up your claim as my client's next-of-kin would be
provided by me.The most important thing I would need
is your honest cooperation in this proposition.This
would be done under a legitimate arrangement that
would protect you from any breach of the law.

If this business proposition offends your moral and
ethical values,feel free to back out. Please contact
me at once if you are interested by replying to
my private email .( hamzah_chambers01@yahoo.com )


Best Regards,
Barr.Hamzah Mustafah Omar Esq



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