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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: "Dr. MOHAMAD ARFIZI BIN MOHD. RAMLI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mohamad_arfizi@contractor.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:19:05 +0800
Subject: Good day


Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry.
Wisma Tani, Lot 4G1, Presint 4, Pusat Pentadbiran,
Malaysia.

My name is Dr MOHAMAD ARFIZI BIN MOHD. RAMLI, I work in the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Malaysia. I came across your profile and l decided to propose to you this business in strict confidence. This transaction requires mutual understanding, transparency and absolute trust to be executed.

I will like to use my position in the office to recommend you as the business partner to a deceased contractor name (with held) who died a month after the completion of his contract project with our organization without any registered business partner in his file. The deceased contractor has unpaid contract balance payment of Euro 8.5M for supply and installation

Meanwhile this fund is presently in the Finance Management and nobody knows what is going on except two of my colleagues and I. This is the information of the contract Contract Number: MTM/SLE/BIR/2007, Contract Sum: US$8.500,000. Therefore, you will stand as the trustee for the Original Contractor; I will send to you the whole relevant documents that are required in this transaction immediately you accept to cooperate with me. Send to me your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Sir, we will decide and shares the funds mutually into a very good business partnership.

I will be going for my retirement very soon. So I need this money to invest in viable project in your country or its environs, you shall arrange for us to meet with you immediately after after we transfer the fund to your account.

Note; the procedure for the release of this payment is a straight process that will not incriminate you in anyway what so ever. So my assurance is that your role is risk free and I can assure you that if I can have your total co-operation, this fund will be paid to you within seven working days.

I am waiting for your urgent response.My alternative email address is mohamad_arfizi@contractor.net

Yours faithfully,

Dr. MOHAMAD ARFIZI BIN MOHD. RAMLI
Ministry of Agriculture and
Agro-Based Industry.

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