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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: "Mrs. Zanubiya Hyada" <pinatm@intrage.it>
Reply-To: m.hyada@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 00:23:58 +0300
Subject: from Mrs. Zanubiya



How are you dear?

Please tolerate any inconvenience this correspondence might give you at the
course of trying to know who i am, quiet unfortunate we have not really gotten
familiar to each other before but due to the need of the proposition I intent
to
present to you i was compelled to go through your profile.

My name is Mrs. Zanubiya Hyada, I am from Syria I live in Damascus, I am a
Pediatrician by Profession. Due to the Civil war going on in my
country we have
evacuated from Damascus city, I left January 2013 with my only
daughter to Khan
al-Sheeh refugee camp after my Husbands death as victim in one of the Bombs
attach. I and my Daughter are currently in southwest of Damascus because,
Damascus is no longer inhabitable due to wave of bombings, assassinations,
rapes
and all kinds of crime going on at night and the city is rotting with the
abandon corps. I have lost much dared relations at the cause of this war which
was as a result of Assad greediness and intoxication of power.

I am contacting you for your assistant because I think I need a
foreigners help
to actualize this operation, so that I and my Daughter can leave here as soon
as
possible and go to another country for safety of life. The help I need
from you
is that, after my Husband's death, as I was picking some of the vital
belongings
to evacuated from Damascus to the refugee camp where are now, I discovered a
Deposit Certificate of $8.5Million USD with a Bank in Malaysia. I have
contacted
the Bank regarding the fund as the Wife to their late (Mr. Mohammed Hyada). I
cannot transfer this fund to my Country Syria since War is still going
in here.

I need an honest and sincere person who can be trusted in receiving
the fund in
his or her account on my behalf. I need your personal attention on this matter
because my latest contact and plan to elope from here will cost me a
maximum of
$40,000 dollars. My plan is that once the Bank in Malaysia releases my Late
Husband fund to you in my Orders, you will in-turn be able to send me
the money
I need to offset my arrangement to leave here as soon as possible through
Lebanon or Jordan down to your country for safety of Life.

I will give 35% for your assistant and help, until I hear from you.
Please your
urgent response will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Mrs. Zanubiya Hyada.

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