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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Patricia Khalid ibn Saqr al Qasseemi" <ptf200ad@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ptf200ad@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:47:12 +0400
Subject: Urgent

Sir

I was privileged to come across your contact through my
personal check with the Australian Investment Portal
and I decided that I should establish a communication
with you to acquiring some information on lucrative
investment or establishment in your country.

Be it as it may, I will appreciate if you can be of
good assistance to me as I am willing to invest my
money with you in Australia provided I will have a
good partner or investor as well fund manager who will
guild on this business framework and as thus, share
with me the dividend in any venture which we have
considered lucrative to invest in and I have not
managed any business before but have always dreamt of
running my own establishment hence my desire to
recapitalize in the Australia Investment market either
in oil or real estate.

Further to this, I will like to give you a little more
information about me, I am a Philippine but married
into the Sharjah Royal Family here in Sharjah United
Arab Emirate, but at the moment undergoing a divorce
case with my husband through the sharia court and
hopefully will get this matter over within a couple of
weeks and that is why I want to calve a niche for
myself to be able to continue with my life and make my
life meaningful when I leave my husband’s family. The
funds I intend to invest with you is currently in a UAE
bank here as was deposited by my late father who worked
before he died as a chemical engineer in the Saudi Oil
Corporation ARAMCO and later the Emirate National Oil
Corporation ENOC.

My reason of trying to establish my own business is
necessitated by the advent of my divorce suite with my
husband and according to the sharjah marital law here,
if my husband family gets any knowledge of the funds in
the bank, they will take possession of the funds since
my father used my name as the next of kin.

It is my wish to handle this matter privately under the
most cautious legal arrangement to get the funds into
your possession before we can commence any trade deal
and therefore demand that you kindly give me a brief
information about you with pictures, contact address
and telephone numbers incase I want to call you .

pls can you tell me if you can deal with my lawyer who
practice in Abu Dhabi – U.A.E as the funds I wish to
invest into the business is in a bank there and I will
like to get you introduced to my lawyer who is also an
American and works with the emirate international law
firm.

the money in question (US$9,750,000) was deposited into
the bank about two years back before my father died of
heart failure and ever since his death, my relationship
with my husband has gone bad due to the fact that I’ve
been married to him for six years now and we have no
issue.

My lawyer advised that what we shall do is to portray
you as an investor who has given that money to my
father before he died for a crude oil lifting from the
Saudi oil corporation but the deal was thwarted due the
sudden death of my father.

By this strategy, the lawyer will present some letter
of administration and application to the bank for the
release of the funds to you under the emirate
inheritance law. This logistics is to get the funds
transferred to you as the bonafide owner of the funds
to avoid any implications that will not permit me as
being married to the royal family to possess such
chattel or estate of my late father in conformity with
the sharia marital law.

So I hope you understand very well, the strategies and
where you don’t quite comprehend, do ask me for more
clarifications and for your involvement I will pay you
15% of the total money for your consultancy and then we
can invest the rest still under your supervision.

Mrs. Patricia Khalid ibn Saqr al Qasseemi




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