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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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Fraud email example:

From: abdulrahman mustafarbin <abdulrahman.abdulrahmanmustafa@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:47:25 +0100
Subject: MUTUAL TRUST

ABDUL RAHMAN ASSOCIATES.


Compliments of the season, before I introduce myself, I wish to
inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to
treat it serious.I would have given you a call, but rather I decided
to contact you via an email to get us acquainted since it is a safer
way of private communication. I am barrister.Abdul Rahman Bin Mustafa
a personal account adviser/officer to a great late
industrialist who has an account in one of the top banks here in
Malaysia . During the course of his bank's last week auditing, it
was discovered that since his death no one has come forward to lay
claims to his funds. So the bank issued me a memo to provide his
next of kin or forfeit the funds. It has been two years now, since
He died in the year 2007 and nobody has operated on his account.


After going through some old files in my records, I discovered that my
late client died without a [WILL], hence the money is floating and if I
do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing as
the bank was sold on Monday,19 September 2008 to another bank. Currently,
the present management of the bank is at the point of finalizing all
transactions before fully handling over to the new management which is an
added advantage to perfect this transaction.These funds will be released
to any foreigner with the accurate information of the account which will
be made known to you immediately you signify your interest to execute
this transaction with me. No other person knows about this account or
anything concerning it as the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that the account is a Secret account.


As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this money into a safe
foreigner's account abroad for investment but I don't know any
foreigner, hence I am contacting you as foreigner because the management of
the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this
account
which I will give you immediately, if you are interested to do this business

with me. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never
let
me down in this business.


Before I will disclose the said amount to you, I must solicit your
strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its
nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of
your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great
magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said
amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either
provide us with an existing 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 that you
will never let me down either now or in future.


As soon as I hear from you, and upon your strong assurance that you will
not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start
to process the transfer of the fund to your account without further
delay. If interested do not hesitate to contact me for further details
and provide me urgently with the following:


Your full Name
Age
Occupation
Current contacts address
Country
phone number and fax.


Please contact me via my private email at:


Yours Faithfully,


Barrister. Abdul Rahman Bin Mustafa [Esq.

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