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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. HASHIM AL-AZMAH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrhashimalazmah@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:26:11 +0700
Subject: FROM MR. HASHIM AL-AZMAH

Attention Friend,

I am Mr. Hashim al-Azmah from Syria. I am in Asia at the moment as a political

refugee because of the recent problems of my country.

I have a huge sum of money deposited in a deposit firm and I need your urgent help

to quickly bring out this deposit so that we can invest it under your name for

investment in your country. Because of the on-going crises, all banks, schools,

hospital, market etc. had been on massive destruction making life very difficult

to live, so this is the only thing left for me now and I want to use it to start a new

life. This transaction requires immediate attention because of the current

political situation in my country (Syria) and I do not want to lose this money to

the rebels or government.

It is a huge sum of money and I am ready to offer you 30% of the money to stand as

the beneficiary to claim the deposit and and transfer it to your account in your

country for investment. I believe you can help me, but on the contrary please

forgive my indulgence and delete this e-mail content without sharing
with anyone.

If you are interested and able to handle this for me in all honesty without any

betrayal of trust that I shall repose on you then contact me for
more details. Please note that this transaction is confidential and should be kept

in top secret until we have completed the transfer of fund to your account in your

country for investment. Please get back to me via my private
e-mail id: mrhashimalazmah@gmail.com

Thank you very much for your understanding.

Respectfully,

Mr. Hashim al-Azmah.

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