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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: Mhd A <mhdyahya2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:41:48 -0700
Subject: business proposal

Good day


My name is Alfred mhd Arafel, I am a top Government functionary in Malaysia
government , presently I'm in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, with my
family,

I am in a dire need of a trust worthy individual/Organization who can
receive and secure the sum of $5,300,000 million, deposited in offshore
account,
The fund was paid by government, as a result of series of contracts which i
used foreign contractors to execute the projects and i make million of
dollars from the contracts fund, The reason why i want to transfer this
money from my name to another name is to avoid series of questions from
government agency because of the high value of the fund, all the contracts
value has been paid off to the foreign contractors and i did 70% of the
supplying of tools with different names further more the fund has been
paid off to the said names which i use they name to supply tools on the
projects, i have all the documents in place to transfer the fund, all i
need from you is to provide a suitable bank account, possibly i can still
come down to your country to have a better discussion if time permit me,

Negotiation is open to you to determine your compensation for your
involvement in this transfer project. You are also free to ask questions on
the area(s) you are not cleared.

i am ready to issue out more detail till i hear from you soon.



Yours faithful
Eng, Alfred mhd arafel

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