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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: Mohd Asif Bin Mohd <m_asif.bin@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mohdasbinmohd@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:24:44 +0000
Subject: URGENT:





MOHD ASIF BIN MOHD
CHAMBERS NO 15 JALAN TUN ISMAIL
KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA
EMAIL: mohdasbinmohd@gmail.com
DIRECT LINE: +60126343856
FAX NUMBER: +60321784715

Mabrook!!!!

Your Name and email address come up in random draw conducted by my Chambers MOHAMED ASIF BIN chambers Malaysia as the winner of my late client Philanthropic gesture fund $2.5 Million USD. By Virtue of this (WILL) you are now the beneficiary to my late client Dr. Yahya Ismail Philanthropic gesture (WILL) fund.

My name is BARRISTER MOHAMED ASIF BIN (Esq.).A personal attorney to my late Client Dr.Yahya Ismail, who worked with CALTEX OIL COMPANY MALAYSIA, Dr. Yahya Ismail a well known Philanthropist who died along with his entire family in the Pakistan International Airline plane that crashed on July 10, 2006 at 12:04 pm as reported on: http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/10/planecrash.htm

Before he died, he made a (WILL) in my law firm stating that $2.5M Two million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. dollars only) should be donated to any Philanthropist of our choice in any of the Countries outside Malaysia to help the poor and the needy around the Globe.

My chambers conducted a random draw which was supervised by the Ministry of justice, the attorney General of Malaysia and Malaysia the Bank where the money was deposited by my late client Dr. Yahya Ismail, and your name and e-mail address was picked as the beneficiary to this (WILL).

I am particularly interested in securing this money from the Bank, because they have issued a notice instructing my chamber to produce the beneficiary of this money within three weeks or else the money will be credited to the Government treasury. It is my utmost desire to execute the (WILL) of my late client Dr. Yahya Ismail. You are required to contact me immediately for further details bearing in mind
that the Bank has given us a date limit. Please contact me urgently via my
personal email address as follows: mohdasbinmohd@gmail.com

Congratulations!!!!
MOHAMED ASIF BIN MOHD.

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