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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: "ENG .R. MALAKA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rrmmala1@inmail24.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:23:18 -0700
Subject: FROM MR RICHARD MALAKASA

Attn: please,

I am Richard Ruthven,an engineer and a citizen of South Africa who works in an oil corporation in Angola.
I work as an engineer in Angola with one of the biggest oil company in Angola name withheld for security
reason`s. I heads the engineering section of this company, and handles all contract`s with engineering
section. Two years ago we awarded a contract to a German company that worth`s S$68million dollars to
supply drilling equipments to our company, but i came to found out that the invoiced was mistakenly over
invoiced of the contract fund in tune of US$88MILLION DOLLARS.


The German company who supplied these equipments has been paid and the balance of US$20million
dollars is still lying in safe account with a bank in Europe. I contacted you because I would like to use your
company as the company`s that executed this contract, in this way we can claim and share the remaining
US$20.MILLION DOLLARS.I have all the documents which we shall need to place you as the executor of
the contract, and all the underground works has been mapped out to make this a success.

Presently, I am on leave out of Angola and this will help us to hasten this deal. Note that there is no risk
involved in this business, as I have taken all the underground work for a successful business transaction.
All I need from you is to provide me with your personal/company`s full details, these information will be
used to raise a file of claim in your company`s name. As soon as I receive your details, I will forward them
to the bank where the money is presently deposited in Europe, I will formally present your company as the
company who executed the contract with us and the process of transferring the money to you will begin.

As soon as the money is in your place, I will resign and come over to your place for the sharing of the
money and I hope to invest the money in your place. At the end of this deal you will get 35% of the total
money 60% for me and the remaining 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that will be in-cured on the
course of this deal.We shall also employ the services of a lawyer who will procure all the documents we
shall need to acetate this transaction legal.


Finally, please don`t be scared or skeptical about this deal it is a clean business as the money is not a
proceed from drug or illegal money laundering. If there is anything you need from me that will make you
believe that you are doing a clean business, let me know and I will be obliged to provide you with that,
I will wait for your prompt response to enable us proceed without

further delay. Please indicate your willingness to take part in this transaction by responding with your
full physical address, telephone number/cell phone and a copy of your Id, or international passport.

Therefore,kindly revert to me via my private email address below for detailed information on this deal which
will highly benefit us if you are interested:( rrmmala1@inmail24.com )

Until then have a lovely day,
Best Regards,

RICHARD Malakasa
xx

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