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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: "Daniel Majid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mdaniel@w.cn>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:52:21 -0800
Subject: ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO,

 
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO,
 
 
 
Dear Sir,
 
 
 
How are you? I hope all is well and this letter will meet you in good shape. I am Majid Daniel, a computer engineer with a bank in United Arab Emirate,which I will hold to mention the name or give you more information about myself for security reasons until I get your positive response to partner with me in this business deal.
 
 
 
Therefore, I contacted you because I came across a payment file valued at US$34.5million dollars which was marked X and the transfer released disk painted RED, I took time to study it and found out that the fund was an accrued dividend from a back-log of an Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) of an average of 1.2% on each private investment and corporate portfolio under our administration and control and all fees and certificates has been cleared, but the fund has not been released and cannot be released for some obvious technical reasons.
 
 
 
However, I do not intend to work here all the days of my life, I can release this fund to you if you can give me 40% of the total sum of US$34.5million dollars and guarantee me of my security and how I can come over to your country from this Dubai-United Arab Emirate, if I do release the fund to your bank account successfully. So I must make sure that you guarantee my security and ensure that my future is secured with you in your country before I will proceed with the transfer of the fund to your bank account accordingly because I will resign my position from the bank as soon as I completed the fund transfer to your bank account successfully as I do not want to work in the bank all my life but to establish my own business empire outside U.A.E.
 
 
 
The only thing I will need to release this fund is a special SWIFT TRANSMISSION HARD DISC, which I will need to buy two of it, recopy your information, destroy the transfer details to avoid traces, and punch the transmission computer to make the fund reflect in your bank account within 24 banking hours.
 
 
 
Upon confirmation of the fund transfer in your bank account through the SWIFT TRANSMISSION HARD DISK, I will clean up the tracer and destroy your file, after which I will travel out from United Arab Emirate to meet with you in your country immediately. If you are interested, do get in touch with me immediately and you should send me your convenient telephone number for easy communications and also reconfirm your information as required below, so that we can proceed with the deal immediately without delay.
 
 
 
(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Phone, Fax and Mobile #.
(3) Company's name, position and address.
(4) A copy of your passport or driver's license
 
 
Please if you are not interested in this deal, kindly delete and destroy this letter
 
 
I await your urgent reply to confidentialproposal@mail.mn
 
 
Sincerely,
Daniel Majid
Computer Engineer
Dubai-United Arab Emirate
E-mail: confidentialproposal@mail.mn

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