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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: "Ahmed Zafar" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ahmedzafar7@maktoob.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:02:19 +0100
Subject: Dear sir,

Dear sir,

This letter would definitely come to you as a surprise owing to the fact that you and I have never had any prior communication My names are Ahmed Zafar I am a Pakistani by birth but presently in United Kingdom. I write to know if you will be interested in working with me on a deal that can make us millionaires if we can be sincere with each other as well as having mutual respect for one another. This is a deal that can run for several years without being unveiled if only we can keep our secrets between just the two of us, and without showing off our wealth to attract undue attentions.

I am an IT expert who have devised a means of siphoning funds from huge deposits of Saddam Hussein’s loot in a bank in Jersey, Channel Island. I am capable of juggling through the bank’s database and make transfers by both swift and plastic means (Debit and ATM Cards) without being noticed by any known bank security device. I have built a network that makes use of the OFX-Connect of i2cbank Electronic Transaction Processing and Personal Financial Management (PFM) equipments/applications.

This Network was built around a secure e-commerce transaction SSL Certificates that enables up to 256-bit encryption including Signing Technologies, Identity Verification Developer Solutions and Anti-Phishing Tools to enhance smooth and undetectable transactions. This is a risk free deal, which can never be traced to anybody because it is strictly online transactions, which shall be strictly done using the proper codes, encryptions, holograms and embossments.

There is US$500,000,000.00 in the said account but we can keep each Transaction as low as US$30,000 and done three times in a week, which gives us a weekly return of US$90,000. We can increase the transaction volume/amount as we progress in the deal. We should be able to siphon more than US$300,000,000.00 from this account and without being traced to us. Please let us execute this deal because this tyrant and his lieutenant’s loots during his dictatorship in Iraq was so much as you can see in some British Broadcasting Corporation news/reports here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm. Following the execution of Saddam and current confiscation of his assets and properties, the said bank is about sitting on this money because the account is coded. But I have been able to decode and burg into it using my soft wares.

In a nutshell without much of the IT jargon, I would gradually set up an account on your name and send you a card so that the withdrawals will be made from your remote country and that is about the best way to keep under cover. You will be in total control though I will monitor it from the systems here. There are so many of those accounts and so we do not need to worry about being discovered because the accounts are not monitored at all by external people. It is a coded account as usual held by world leaders, kept with the most secret banking codes.

As we progress I will get you informed of more details as you may require.
We need to be quick though.


Please do indicate your position through a return mail so that I can update you further. The sooner we commence this deal the better. Please if you are skeptical about anything just feel free to ask for further and more detailed explanation/clarifications on my winning strategies and why I am so sure of being successful in the deal.

I chose to contact you via email because that is the only modest way without attacking your privacy. We would get it a bit formalised when I hear from, and all the security and know-me-know-you-better is done.

Regards.

Ahmed Zafar

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