419 scam: moha@mus.com Asalam Alakum

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- mohammed.mustafa7@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: moha@mus.com
Reply-To: mohammed.mustafa7@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:50:56 +0530
Subject: Asalam Alakum

Hello Sir,
I am sorry to bother you, I am urgently in need of a trusted partner for a very confidential and vital engagement. I am in Libya and need to move out and trust a huge amount of Funds in a trusted hands for any profitable and lucrative Business. please do get back to me for proceedings if you can be of help.

I am a very closed and trusted collaborator to my Boss, Son Of Late HIS EXCELLENCY MOAMAN GADAFFI'S, Presently, my Boss is dead and before he was killed,he left with me his vital and confidential rooms .
I just break into one of the lockers and discovered a large sum of money lying in it. Thus, i wish to find a way to move out these funds and also move out of the country before it could be discovered, Now I have all the logistics well planned and mapped out to fly out the funds, I was going through visibility search of emerging nations and found out that, India is a fast growing Economy with abound business opportunities thus,

I would want you to be a partner and a representative to assist me move these funds so that you can help me invest this fund in real estates and any lucrative businesses in India. Sir, I wish to do this as fast as possible so that I can save the value of the funds because, this funds lying in black money, is more or less a dead investment. The total amount in place is about FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.sir, bear with me that it's a very confidential information i am revealing to you and this is because i want you to know the source of the money and also to understand that the money is all the product of the nation which was been embezzled as a result of the corrupt government practices.please contact me at mohammed.mustafa7@yahoo.com.

Thanks & Regards'
Mohammed Mustafa

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