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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: "Aminatu M Bolkiah" <royalfamily2000@arabtop.net> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:01:51 +0400
Subject: ROYALFAMILY

Asallam alaiykum,
I got your reliable contact from A business diary and further explicit investment informations about your country from my legal advicer in uk who has been of great assistance since the incaceration of my family and our departure from Borneo-
Brunei palace due to severe human rights abuses occuring in my country.
I am Aminatu M Bolkiah the only child of prince Jefri Bolkiah, Former finance minister of Brunie, the tiny oil-rich Gulf Island of Borneo, I will save your time by not amplifying much of my extended
Royal family history,which has already been disseminated by the international media during the controversial dispute between my late father and his stepbrother, The sultan of Brunei Sheik Muda Hassanal Bolkiah.
You may know from the international media that the sultan accused my late father of financial mismanagement and improperity of $1.2 billion dollars. This was as a result of the asian financial crisis that made my late father's company Amedeo Development Company and government owned Brunei investment company to be decleared bankrupt during his tenure as a
member of the asian-Gulf exchange comittee.How ever my late father was kept under house arrest ,his bank accounts and private properties including a crude oil export refinery were later confiscated by the sultanate.
Futhermore during this unfortunate period,I was adviced to evacuate my residence for saudi arabia were i can take refugee in order to avoid further prosecution from the sultan and his security operatives, but before i could do that i was arrested placed under house arrest by the
sultan and no access to a phone but a pentium 4 computer from which i am sending you this mail.Some of the guards here are still loyal to me.
Before my arrest,I deposited the sum of Fourty five Million dollars ($25,000,000.00)under special arrangements with a financial company in different countries abroad for safe keeping until my problems are over.The money were splitted and kept in the following countries in these proportion: US$ 10Million in spain and $ 15Million in United Arab emirates.Hence i seek your good assistance in claimming and investing my funds in a profitable venture so as to facilitate future survival for my family.
Kindly observe here that no terms of compensaition or payment has been disclosed yet until your consent is acknowledged.
Wa-sallam,
Aminatu M Bolkiah
for my safety security use this email;
royalfamily2000@arabtop.net











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