419 scam: "Mr.Amal Al Hammadi"<amalalhammadi

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mramalalhammadi@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Amal Al Hammadi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Mramalhammadi20@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:49:07 -0700
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU

From: Mr.Amal Al Hammadi
MANAGER National Bank of Abu-Dhabi
Government Complex Branch (Delma)In Tamm Center.
P.O.BOX 50670 Abu-Dhabi, U.A.E
Email mramalalhammadi@aol.com

Dear Friend,

This letter must come to you as a surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal; I got your e-mail address through an internet yellow page web directory and decided to contact you and ask for your assistance in this urgent matter, requiring trust and confidentiality, I am Mr.Amal Al Hamadi, the Branch manager, National Bank of Abu-Dhabi Government Complex Branch (Delma)In Tamm Center. Abu-Dhabi (U.A.E) United Arab Emirates, married with four children. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department, On June 6, 1999, an America Oil consultant/contractor with Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Elsayed Agwah, made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve calendar months, Valued at US$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars )in my branch upon!
maturity. I sent a routine notif

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

Most astonishing of my discovery was that, all records bear no next of kin, meaning no member of Mr.Elsayed Agwah family knows about the deposit therefore ,no member of his family will ever come forward to claim the money, In order for the bank not to transfer the said sum of sixteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($16,500,000.00) as unclaimed funds to the emirates treasury account, the above stated funds most be claimed immediately by somebody standing in as late Mr.Elsayed Agwah, Next of Kin, because According to (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LAW), at the expiration of (eleven) years; the money will revert to the ownership of the (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund, This revelation is only known to me because I was his personal account officer before I was posted to become the branch manager , now I seek your collaboration to act as next of kin to late Mr.Elsayed Agwah to claim the funds and move them into useful investments, we !
shall split the cash between our
:

1) Your direct mobile/number...............
(2) Your Full name..........................................
(3) Country resident address.................................
(4) Your private E-mail box..............................
(5) Company name and position.............................
Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction without any delay.

Regards
Mr.Amal Al Hammadi
Email mramalalhammadi@aol.com

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