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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: "Dr. Bin Abdul Razak" <dr.binabdulrazak86@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: razak_dr.binabdul@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:26:34 +0200
Subject: Can I Trust You?.

Hello Dear,

I crave your indulgence, knowing that this my mail maybe astounded to
you. My name is Bin Abdul Razak, a branch manager of the CIMB 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. 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 CIMB 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 2008, 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 it, and
will never be aware of. I have since place 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. Mean While
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. I would appreciate your
urgent response.

Best Regards

Dr. Bin Abdul Razak

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