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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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Fraud email example:

From: "julian hadiza" <mudkhalili1@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: julihadiza@yahoo.co.au
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:32:06 -0800
Subject: Greeting

Hello,
my name is julian hadiza ibn Omar,from Iraq,married to Immam Talal Ibn Omar
now late.my mother is from Argentina.
I was held in purdah (islamic seclusion for women)for twenty three years
seeing only my husband when he wants to satisfy his sexual desires.I have
a son who was taken away from me at age nine by my husbands relatives.some
even went to the extent of calling me names like the Argentine witch.my
mother died here in iraq under mysterious circumstances when i was still
tender,and my father married me out at the age of seventeen.he died three
years after.
Since then i lived in the remote area of Tikrit in seclusion,until just
recently when the allied forces toppled the babaric government of saddam
hussien,and my husband died that i regained my freedom.
I am now reunited with my son,and we live near the city where there is electricity
and portable water.
My problem now is that i want liberation.i want to move out to the western
world with my son. I understand there are better opportunities out there,but
not without getting some body who will assist me claim some amount of money
that belongs to my husband.
My late husband during the tyranical days of saddam hussien made a lot of
money,he could not bank it here nor send it overseas because of the strict
rules here and sanctions overseas,so he boxed it and tagged it PHOTOFILM
MATERIALS(NOT TO BE EXPOSED TO LIGHT)and deposited it with a security company.the
three boxes contains 16 million american money.I have all the documents,and
the company will insist on releasing the boxes only to my husbands brothers,
as Islamic law permits.
please if you will assist me get out the boxes, you do not need to come
to iraq,because i already have a well laid out plan that will ensure we
get out the boxes one after the other,then i can now leave with my son and
never to go back there.
i will give you more details when i hear from you.
Thank you so much
juli-hadiza







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