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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: "Nabir Vakim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nabirvakim09@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:40:59 +0100
Subject: Attention


Dear Sir

I got your address and fax from the only English newspaper clippings in the Refugee library,
where am currently staying with my two siblings in belgium.

My name is Nabir Vakim am a 16 years old syrian, we lost our parents due to the civil war in my country,
Upon the death of my parents we were sent out to belgium with a batch of syrians whom were given asylum by the European Union,
My late Father Mr. Moussa Vakim used to be a great textile trader and a local politician which as a result he had a considerable fortune in
cash and Gold deposits in a banking institutionin Spain. Which I will discuss the worth and Value with you in future ,

if what I will say will be accepted by you as my reason for writting.
My siblings and I, wants a better life opportunities for ourselves and we want to begin our life in
the United States of America, Where we can go to school and have parent/guardian presence in our lives,
I am the direct next of kin to this inheritance left by my father, and notably we were brought up as christians.

So the request is this, Is there is anyway you can accept us and be our temporal guardian to enable us come and live in
America. On my part, I will sign into your authority and control all the assets currently in my name as I cannot be able
to manage it or control or moreover loss it to other people,

Nobody knows about the money or gold for now except you, even the company holding it does not know that we are in belgium.
I can promise, I will do it first before committment from your side. since the fax I am using belongs to our
Social asistant in this Red Cross refugee center, you can response back to me by email address :-nabirvakim09@gmail.com
from hence we can maintain confidence and will be able to go into more details on how to move forward.

Respectfully

Nabir Vakim.

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