419 scam: "Al-Hassan Yazid"<info@mail.com> GOOD DAY!!!

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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:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "contract review panel" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Al-Hassan Yazid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mmxy41@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:22:43 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY!!!

>From the desk of:
AL-Hassan Yazid
Contract Review Panel
Ministry of Finance
Iraq,

Dear Sir / Madam,

I am Al-Hassan Yazid of the Contract Review Panel of the Ministry of Finance, Iraq.
I am presently the Head of the contract Review Panel currently sitting in Iraq. After the demise of the Americans from Iraq,we have decided to rebuild our country. We are presently reviewing contracts done in Iraq in the past few years to know the ones that were fully executed and the ones uncompleteted during the past years that Iraq was under siege by the late Saddam Hussein and the U.S.A.

This will enable us know contractors to be paid for their various job completion and the ones to be funded to enable them conclude their contracts.

My intension of writing you this letter is to seek your permission to invite you into a deal that will mutually benefit you and I without any risk involved, knowing fully well that everything will be done in a legal manner.You and I have this once in a life time oppurtunity to share the sum of US$27Million at the ratio of 50:50.

In my capacity as the HEAD accountant of the ministry of finance Iraq, I have the ability in my capacity to obtain and endorse documents in your favor to make you a bonifide contractor due for payment for job completion in Iraq during the reign of our former President Saddam Husein.

If you know you can be my partner in this, you should send me your complete names, private email address, telephone numbers and a promise of CONFIDENTIALITY to enable us execute the deal. I assure you once more that this will be done in a legal manner and it will be treated as confidential.

You can reply to this email:

Have a great day.

Regards,

Al-Hassan Yazid.

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