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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: rahman razak <razak6888@msn.com>
Reply-To: <rahman_razak1@live.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:36:17 +0000
Subject: Urgent Reply Needed .



Hello

Compliment of the day to you. I wish to extend this mutual business proposal to you with the

hope that you will gladly accept. I am Mr.Rahman Razak, the personal account officer to the

great late diseased who has an account in one of the top banks here in Malaysia.

We want to transfer to overseas ($45,000,000 USD) forty five million United State Dollars

from a Cooperate Bank here in Malaysia to an oversea account . The account was opened in

2001 and he died in 2003 without a written or oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated

on this account again. After going through some old files in the records I discovered that

the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not

remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing and the Govt.of Malaysia will

confiscate the funds for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to

happen being that this is a great opportunity for me.

I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and

fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately

to receive this money, even an empty bank account can serve to receive this money, as long

as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and

believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

The amount involved is ($45,000,000 USD) forty five million United State Dollars, but I

don't know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot

be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can

only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and

foreign account because the money is in UNITED STATE DOLLARS and the former owner of the

account is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign bank account.





I have packaged this transaction in a way that it will be of mutual benefit to us. As the

top accountant, it is my duty to send a financial report to my head office in the capital

city here in Kuala Lumpur , at the end of each financial year.I have also moved the funds

into what the bank call Escrow Holding Account with no beneficiary. Meanwhile as you know I

can not be directly connected to this money for obvious reasons .I will compute your

particulars as the person who made the deposit in my branch, so that my head office will

immediately order the transfer to your designated bank Account.


I got your contact address from my secretary who operates computer, I am revealing this to

you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business. you are the first

and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that

I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax

number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit.


I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to

approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I

will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable

and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in

this business.

I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down. With my influence and

the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable

bank account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact in your

acount after successful transfer pending our physical arrival in your country for

withdrawal, sharing and for possible investments. The bank official will destroy all

documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace ,we will fly to

your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account for withdrwal ,

sharing and for possible investment.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to

act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain

all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate

clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be

for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of

transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my email.

Sincerely,
Mr.Rahman Razak.









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