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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: Kamal <office@md11.net>
Reply-To: info@arabianmineralfzc.com
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:29:49 +0200
Subject: Job offer



Hi,

This is Kamal Saros, the General Manager of "ARABIA MINERAL TRADING FZC. ". We are seeking for a registered company in United Kingdom to act as a link between our company and our clients to be receiving payments from our clients on our behalf.

In addition, there has been a new development in the United Arab Emirates banking session authority on increasing tax payment on foreign companies, so we are doing to evade the high taxation rate recently implemented by the U.A.E Government.

Therefore, we need someone in UK who can act as a liaison to receive our clients payments on our behalf as we supply goods and services, and we will pay you 5% commission payment for your services in each payment you received and process it done to us, less better for us.

Our main desire is to have a reliable person whom we can trust to represent our company in processing our clients payment on our behalf.

Trust you can understand?

Await your reply if interested.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Kamal

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