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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: "Hafiz Irwansyah" <hafizirwansyah@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 10:49:41 -0700
Subject: Please Give This Urgent Attention,



Dear,Please Give This Urgent Attention,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you,to transfer to your
overseas account,sum of($10,123.000.00 USD) Ten million one hundred and twenty
three thousand United States Dollars) from one of the Prime Banks here in
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
I am Mr Hafiz Irwansyah (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime banks
here in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, during the course of our auditing , I
discovered a floating funds deposited in our bank since 2007 and
till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old
files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the deposited fund died long ago
in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a [Heir/WILL], hence
the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it
will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of the deposited fund was a foreigner , Engr.Khalifa T.Ibrahim, an estate
consultant .
Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence ,I wish to
contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative , thus I can work out the
release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the deposited fund ,
please be assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will work it out , all I
need is your cooperation because the deposited fund content can not be approved to an
indigen here as his next of kin . At the conclusion of this project, I propose
a joint investment of an equal partnership to you or we may share it in a
ratio of 50% for you and 50% for me.
One more thing please; I beg you don't consider this against moral
justification , they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with
this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than having
it shared as an unclaimed bill among Government.
I look forward to your earliest response
Yours Truly
Mr Hafiz Irwansyah
NOTE: YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME TO MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR SECURITY REASONS
<hafizirwansyah@hotmail.com>

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