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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: "COMPANY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ifcc.mcw@live.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:12:56 -0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY

The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)
Malaysia Crime Watch (M.C.W)
Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia.

Dear Beneficiary,

My Name is Mr. Mohamed Nazri, Head of Department Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia.

However, this is to officially inform you that an ATM Card worth USD $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) has been issued as a compensation payment for all the short listed 2011/2012 scam victims whose email address was recovered during the recent internet probing and investigation process.

Your email address was found among the list so we are in no doubt believed that those syndicates must have collect money from you through their dubious criminal ways. And for security reasons, we will advice you to immediately stop all further conversation with whom ever you might be in contact with promising to transfer money to you, either through Lottery Winnings, Act as a Next of Kin, Contract sum, investment plan, dating from any social networking websites or any other related issued that involves transferring money as they are all fake and not genuine.

It was on these very recommendation that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in conjunction with the United States Government, The Financial Action Task Force, EFCC & The Malaysian Crime Watch after series of meeting held, came up with a sanction to all West African & Asian countries to compensate all the foreign victims with a payment benefit of USD$500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) each in order to restore the Global Economy to the enviable standard of respectability.

Please note that upon receipt of your response, we will process and send you an ATM Card, which you will use to withdraw your money from any ATM machine, in any part of the world, so if you like to receive your fund, contact the chairman of the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) Mr. Mohamed Nazri on the following email address: (ifcc.mcw@live.com) and also send him the following information;

1. Full Name:..........
2. Phone Number:.......
3. Mailing Address:....
4. Age and Sex:........
5. Occupation:.........

Your immediate compliance to this will expedite actions on your Payment because here in this office, we have lot of listed victims to be settled. We will once again advise you to stop all further communication with whoever you are communicating with under such act and report them immediately, so that immediate action can be take to apprehend these criminals.

Regards,
Mr. Mohamed Nazri
www.malaysiacrime.com

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