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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: "Abdul Khaleed" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:47:00 -0400
Subject: CONTRACT PAYMENT

Dear Friend, I and my colleagues are officials incharge of offshore remittance in Our company H & L LIMITED, jointly owned by Seigha Davis and Richard Davis I ask for a business relationship with you in regards to some funds accured from an over-invoiced contract payment for the re construction of ESSAR OIL REFINERY, VADINAR, GUJARAT, INDIA . A contract awarded valued at one Hundred and Twenty Seven Million United States Dollar (US$127,000,000.00) was just discovered to have been over invoiced to amount to Sixty Nine Million United States Dollars($169,000,000.00) . This contract has been completely executed and the contractors have been paid their contract less this $42,000,000.00. which is in a dormant account with a bank in Malaysia. For your assistance, send me your phone number so we can work out modalities to transfer the funds into your nominated account while you send our own share. Yours Sincerely. Abdul Khaleed Managing Partner abdulkhaleed1965@sify.com

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