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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: "Mr. Key Chong" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <namasyarikatym@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 18:58:41 +0800
Subject: CONGRATULATION JOB OFFER

Good Day,


I am Mr. Chug Key, the PRO to Mediterranean Export Enterprise,a brokerage firm based in the Malaysia number of growing firms based in Asia involved in the exportation of raw materials and industrialized goods into the Canadian, American markets with our head office based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Your email address was selected through a specialized mail-marketing request made possible through associations and unions and based on your location in which you currently reside. As brokers for corporations in the Asian region, our job is to search for representative who can help us establish a medium of getting to the customers/clients in Canada, America, as well as making payments through you as a foreign company representative for raw materials supplied to our customers in America,Canada.We will be very glad if you are interested in this proposal as our representative in your country and you will be given further details in due course. You get paid on commission from 8% and up to 16%. Minimum guaranteed commission will be US$8500 and upwards monthly. With more experience, it could get to US$27,000 monthly. There is no catch or special qualifications, but integrity honesty and loyalty is a must. If you are interested, kindly contact our Director Of Operations, Mr.Nama Syarikat for more information concer

E-mail: namasyarikatym@aol.com
Regards,
Mr.Chug Key

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