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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: Abdul Hamid <abdulhamid012@gmail.com>
Reply-To: abdul.hamid012@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:32:13 +0400
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Hello Happy new day,

You might be surprise on how I got you email address; I get it while
searching the web. My name is Abdul Hamid, the manager of Excellent Fin.
Company London. My company needs a raw material which we use for the
manufacturing of medicated glasses, Diamond and golden Jewelries by name
DIAMOND MIXTURE.

DIAMOND MIXTURE is our major raw material, we buy a gram of Diamond Mixture
$1240 from dealers in London, recently I discovered a supplier in Middle
East that offered me a gram $685 and quality is the same, I offered my
company $985 per gram and they are very happy to buy 5kg.

My personal profit in 5kg is $1.5m (one million five hundred thousand US
Dollars).
I am contacting you because my manager will be traveling to UAE for the
purchase in few days time.

1. You will act the middle marketer between the main UAE Dealers of
this product and our company here in London in the sense that you will buy
this product from the main dealers at the rate of US$685/gram and sell to
our company at the rate of US$985/grams after I might have introduced you to
our company as the main dealer, and also given you the main dealer's contact
in Middle East for you to contact them to know the availability of the
product in their stock.

You will met our purchasing manager on arrival to Middle East, show him your
office to convince him you are the dealer, take him back to his hotel, go
and purchase from the main dealer, bring the product to his hotel, collect
cash from him, finish. You extract our profit and take your money back to
where you bring it. It’s a day transaction.

My Company is presently running out of stock of this product. If you are
interested and promise your honesty in this business please do get in touch
with me so that we can reach into an agreement on how to share this $1.5m
(one million five hundred thousand US Dollars) profit.

I only want you to assure me that you will be honest with me, and also keep
this business secret between both of us, so that our company will not
realize that I connived with you to inflate the price of the product for my
own interest because if they do, as I say, I will loss my job and also my
career will be jeopardized. I will tell you more things about this business
if I find you are interested to do the business and will also guide you to
the success of it.

Regards,
Mr. Abdul Hamid
United Kingdom.

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