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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: najeebamoudou1@yahoo.in
Reply-To: najeebamoudou1@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:54:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?QXNzYWxhYW114oCZYWxheWt1bSAocGVhY2UgYmUgdXBvbiB5b3Up?=


Assalaamu’alaykum (peace be upon you)
 
Fund Raising Appeal For Mosque and
School Building
Project.
 
Greetings to you and your family in the name of
Almighty Allah,my name is Najeeb  Amoudou from Republic
of Benin.
 
  Please dear ,this letter come to you as a
result of mosque and school building project we have at hand which need
completion,but no money to complete it as I am writing to you now we don't have
any nearby mosque to pray and our children don't also have any islamic school to
attend after many years of going far distance to pray our community decided to
start this mosque and school building project,we will attach the photo to you in
our next mail,we are in one of the village,our children don't go to
school,because there is no islamic school it is only those who there parents has
the opportunity for there children to study in the city.
 
We will attach
to you the photo of the mosque in our next mail the stage we have reach in
building it,but there is no money to complete it again,As you can see the mosque
nearly completion but we don't have money anymore to finish it,please dear we
are appealing for your financial help in any way you can help us,please do it
for Allah so that we can complete this mosque and school building project.As you
help us Allah will greatly reward you.we await your reply
Najeeb Amoudou

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