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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: Malik Fariz <malikfariz010@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:21:15 -0700
Subject: You Can Be His Next Of Kin

Dear Good friend,

My name is Barrister M. Malik Fariz, A solicitor,I worked as a personal
Attorney to late Mr. Zulfiqar Ahmed , an expatriate, who was a consultant
with PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD (PETRONAS) Malaysia. He died on April 21st,
2009. Since then I have made several inquiries as to locate any of his
extended relatives, but all proved abortive.

After several unsuccessful attempts, hence I decided to contact you. I am
contacting you to assist in retrieving the money valued at (US$15.5 Million
) that was left behind by my client (Mr. Zulfiqar Ahmed ) with the HSBC
BANK BERHAD, Malaysia before it declared un-serviceable account and be
confiscated by the bank. Consequently, the bank issued a notice to provide
any member of late Zulfiqar Ahmed family or relatives within 10 days or the
account will be closed.

I hereby seek your consent to act as relative to late Zulfiqar Ahmed and
claim the money US$15. 5 Million from the bank. I will provide the
necessary information to be used in convincing the bank that you relate to
late Zulfiqar Ahmed . Whoever I present to the bank will claim the money,
since I am his personal Counsel before he dies; the bank knows me, because
I represent him in all his banking dealings with the bank.

When you claim the money, we share it 50% / 50%. All I require is your
honest cooperation to enable us succeed
without any hitch. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law.

I wait for your urgent reply, send your reply to my private email address :
malikfariz65@gmail.com,l'm sending this mail with my office email address.

Sincerely,
Barrister. Malik Fariz (Esq.

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