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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: "GAS DEAL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jackbosco77@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:20:17 +0800
Subject: MEGA OIL DEAL

,
I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinion or willingness on this classified information that I will release to you.
Note that this opportunity will change our financial status and will give us a secured future.
I am Mr.Muradyan, a staff with the Aramco-Saudi oil corporation(ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION)
I got your information during my search through the Internet.
It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem,so this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me.
I only hope we can assist each other.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as an audit officer
my duty to send in a financial report of all crude oil transactions with brokers and state governments in ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION at the end of each year.
After submitting the annual report, some outstanding debts(USD3.5Million) already classified as bad and irrecoverable were paid which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of
I have since place this fund in A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary
. As a Staff, I can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE,
while you will have 50% of the total fund.

Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is

YOUR NAME,
ADDRESS,
AGE,
OCCUPATION,
YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER


If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.
As soon as I receive your kind response, then i will submit them to the bank for them to start the transfer process.
Regards,
Muradyan
jackbosco77@yahoo.cn

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