419 scam: "MR SOLOMON AHAD"<sahad33@hotmail.com> SEEKING FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE.

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- solomon1ahad@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR SOLOMON AHAD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <solomon1ahad@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:15:34 +0100
Subject: SEEKING FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE.

Good day Sir/Madam,

I'm Solomon Ahad and I work with a Fiscal Institution here in asia. We had a customer and mogul by name Badri Patarkatsishvili from Georgia, who had a balance of $18,200,000.00 usd before he died of a heart condition and since then, our office have been expecting his family member(s) for the heritage of the deposit, but none has surfaced and the account has been tagged for dormancy.

The policy of our fiscal institution however stipulates a limited time period for such heritage to be made or the finances' will be written off going by the record of the incident, the time limit for the claim is closing up soon for the next of kin to show up or the account will be closed and i came to have the knowledge of this account as the auditor in this fiscal institution. So if you are interested kindly contact me true my private email address(solomon1ahad@hotmail.com ) for me to furnish you more details.
Yours Sincere,
Mr Solomon Ahad.

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