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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: Tomiko Masuyo <tomikojapanese@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 12:17:31 +0700
Subject: PLEASE I REQUEST AN URGENT REPLY

Hello,

I am a banker in Cambodia. I am using my other email and can not send this
message through my bank's personal email account for confidential reasons.
I am contacting you because I want to propose a viable financial
opportunity worth USD$1.5 million and which will be beneficial in our areas
of interest. I am a senior accountant in one of Malaysian banks, Cambodian
branch. (Name withheld for confidential reasons). One of our affluential
customers, Mrs. BIBY NAZLI MOHD HASSIM, wife to Chief executive of Celcom
Axiata Berhad, DBA Celcom (The older telecommunication company in
Malaysia). The woman was a passenger of MH370 which lost on March 8, 2014
from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing.

After examining her bank account, the woman has a credit account with our
bank which she kept privately from her family members. The current figure
she deposited in her credit account is US$1.5 (One Million, Five Hundred
Thousand only) in US dollars.

I hereby contact you because I need your co-operation thereby making it
easy for us to have access to the money. I choose to contact you since we
don't know each other and there are no possibility of risk. Once the
transaction is done successfully, you get your own share of the money and I
get mine. If I receive an affirmative reply from you, I will tell you how
we will work together to achieve this transaction successfully.

Due to the nature of this financial transaction, I want us to maintain a
high level of trust and confidentiality between us and nobody else should
know about our conversations, that is why I don't use my bank's email
account to contact you.

Please, I want you to forward correspondences to my home email which I
frequently check, it is given below:

thaqifumar1010@asia.com

I will further explain every detailed information on what areas I need your
co-operation as soon as I hear back from you.

Sincerely,

Mr. Thaqif

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