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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: "syriafirstladyasad@libero.it" <syriafirstladyasad@libero.it>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:18:37 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Contact Barrister for urgent update

Attention Mr/Mrs,

I need your urgent reply to this message, I am the first lady of Syria ,my
husband President Bashar al-Assad is under pressure as all eyes on him.

The fact is that the whole world is against him, as rebel called free Syria
Army are used by opposition group they all want my husband dead for nothing.

Anyway that is not my reason of contacting for the first place.

Sir, I need your urgent reply to this message, our life is at risk, my husband
has asked me to look for a trusted person to handle for us this transaction as
no one knows tomorrow.

We have check round to see where we can move this funds to for safety we only
have ASIA left that are not against us, please because of my children future we
have move the sum of $19.000.000.00 to one of the apex Bank in Indonesia now on
a transit account ready to be transferred to your choice account immediately
upon our business agreement with our lawyer in Indonesia Jakarta signed.

Please this most be a top most secret in your life as the western world want
to reap us empty of all we have in life by sponsoring rebel to fight and over
through the government, everyday people all in the name of government no rebel
kill anyone but they holding guns and superior weapon as every see them on
television everyday.

Please if you serious contact my lawyer immediately to draft an agreement and
must be legalized for my future history to my children as he left U.K for this
transaction to Indonesia.

Contact ............................................Barrister Jackson Code
Email barristerjackjaka@yahoo.co.uk.....................Contact Barrister for
urgent update of the said funds with this message urgently



Thanks,
Asma al‑Assad

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