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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 mahmoud" <dmahmoud@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dmahmoud@excite.com
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:43:50 +0700
Subject: INVESTMENT INQUIRY

Dear Sir,

With deep appreciation of your esteem contact I got from your company, I wish to introduce myself. I am Dr. Muthana H.Mahmoud. Actually I will like to invest in your company. I will like to know the procedures of a non-citizen investors. In investments, you have to look for a good company with the safety environmental condition of the foreign investor is guaranteed, actually after reading through your company profile, I decided to contact you.

I will be very much more delighted if you can give me details about your company, I am also looking forward to reading your reply as soon as possible, so as to detail you my background of my investment programme and how much fund that I am intending to invest and also the area that I would like to invest it after good negotiation.

Thanks very much for taking time to go through to my e-mail, I shall be glad to reserve this respect and opportunity for you, if you so desire, but I do urge you to give the matter your immediate attention it deserves. Respond to my private email: d_mahmoud@excite.com

Regards

Dr.Muthana H.Mahmoud.


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