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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: abou dan <aboudan123@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: halmed123@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:37:09 -0400
Subject: Business Venture of Mutual Benefit


From - Abou El Dan
Wadi Chahrour - Haret El Sit
Baabda - Mount leba
Beirut, lb 1302
Lebanon


Dear friend,

My name is Abou El Dan. I own and manage Abou El Dan Ventures a Lebanese company specialized in crude oil exploration and management with offices in Beirut and Spain .I am writing this letter to personally solicit for your assistance in a project of mutual benefits.

As you may be aware of, the current crisis in the Middle East over the last weeks has made live extremely hard for people in Lebanon and to say the least for businesses. We have been in business for more than a decade and as such, Abou El Ventures have been fortunate to have executed major contracts all over the Middle East in its specialized areas.

I have come to the realization that the crisis in the Middle East will be on going despite all the efforts by the international communities to amicably resolve the issues. As such, I moved my liquid assets worth $32.5 million USD out of Lebanon in a bonded form to a security and vaulting company in Spain. Now the Spanish government are investigating the account holders of top Lebanese businessmen in accordance with the United Nation guidelines, They are trying to crack down all Hezbollah financial contributor to the crisis in Lebanon.
The only situation this funds will not be confiscated, is to make immidiate funds tranfer hence the need for just partnership.

I am contacting you for your help in transferring these funds from Spain. I got your contact information over the internet. I feel certain you will be of great help. I implore you to treat this letter with utmost confidentiality

If you are not in a position to assist, please do not respond to this letter and I apologize for taking your time. Upon receipt of your acceptance, we will negotiate on what should be a fair compensation for your assistance. If you are interested in rendering this most needed assistance, please send your full names and address and your phone number(s) for effective communication. I will give you 20% for your effort and will invest the remaining 80% in any business of your choice and will be entitled to 5.0% on the annual turnover of the business, this will only continue for a period of ten consecutive years and after which I shall be 100% control. This is very necessary because I will need you to help me manage the business in your country because George Bush has made the whole world to believe that moslems are bad creatures which is not very correct.

Please I await your urgent response through my private e-mail aboudan123yahoo.com to enable us proceed with the transfer once agreements have be reached.

Sincerely Yours,

Abou El Dan

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