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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: Sheriff Mohamed <s.mohamed83@rocketmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:31:56 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Hello Dear


MR.Sheriff Mohamed Abdul
BRANCH MANAGER
HONG LEONG BANK
SARAWAK  MALAYSIA

Hello Dear,

I crave your indulgence, knowing that this mail may be astounded to you. My name is Sheriff Mohamed Abdul, a branch manager of the Hong Leong Bank, Sarawak branch Malaysia. I got your information during my search through the Internet, and I decided to confide in you. I am 49years of age with a family of 2 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a peaceful man by nature and I wouldn’t want to involve my family in a mess.

Though I do not know how you may feel about this because you might have double mind about it, but I am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can assist each other. But if you are not interested in this business offer, kindly ignore it and I will not contact you again. There is a personal financial transaction that I would want you to handle with me, which will benefit both of us.

As the regional manager of the Hong Leong Bank; it is my obligation to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city (Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia) at the end of every year. On the course of the last two years end of the year report 2009, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars [7, 500,000.00] which my head office is not aware of , and will never be aware of. I have since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary, just to investigate the source, but I discovered at last that it was an excess profit from our bank which nobody is aware of.

As an official of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this fund, so I finally came in conclusion of contacting you as a foreigner for us to carry out the deal together, so that you can assist me and receive this fund into your bank account for us to SHARE. Meanwhile, you will have 40% of the total fund, Note that there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I desire from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch, so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you would accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much, as soon as I receive your response, I will give you the details on how we can achieve it successfully. If you are interested please contact me via this email: s_mohamed73@rocketmail.com.
I would appreciate your urgent response

Best Regards
Sheriff Mohamed Abdul

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