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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: Gassan ABUBAKAR <gassan.fatimat_abub@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:15:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE SIR, YOUR RESPONSE AND ADVICE IS URGENTLY IS HIGHLY NEEDED


Dear Sir

Asaalam Alaekum Waramotulahi
Wabarakatuh.......Bisimilahi Rahman Raheem............

I start in the name of Almighty ALLAH, the most
beneficial and merciful. May HE continue to rest and
abide with you in HIS Riches and Peace, Amen.
Please I would like to confide in you and I will at
the same time like you to keep it confidential, while
I will also do the same.
My name is GASSAN & my younger sister's name is
FATIMAT.I am the first and only son of ALHAJI{DR.}
IBRAHIM BOIMA ABUBAKAR,the Chairman and the Chief
Executive Officer of DIAMONITES INC.,the Crude
Oil/Natural Minerals merchant at theDarfur Region,in
the South West SUDAN.
I was born in Khartoum, the capital city of SUDAN in
the year 1985;am 21years old by now while my younger
sister is 18years old. I am a student of one of the
Polytechnics in our country and my sister was still in
the Secondary School waiting to write her final Exams;
BUT unfortunately, there was a Crisis that broke out
in our country recently, infact that really left many
of us in a state of dilemma.
My father was kidnapped by some unknown military
troops, otherwise known as Rebels, while we call them
in our country as "Jajanweed" towards the end of the
year 2002 simply because he was a close associate of
the MR JOHN GARANG, who was the leader of the SUDAN
PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY {SPLA}. My father was accused
of conspiring with the rebel leader to overthrow the
ruling Government of PRESIDENT UMAR ALBASHEER; while
he was later killed this year February 2006 after been
detained for almost 4years.
I want to tell you that my Late father was also a
close friend of the Vice-President of the Republic of
Ghana whose my father used his influence to deposit
some cash amounted to the sum of Five Million and Six Hundren Thousand
US dollars {$5.6M USD}with one of the prime banks in
the Ghana in the year 2001.while he signed my name as
the Next of Kin to claim it for future purposes.
However, since the Crisis started we have been
receiving many threat to kill us while some unexpected
rebels visited our House and get hold of our mother
who was later sexually abused
which led to her death by these rebels in our
presence, in April,2004.
I and my younger sister does not have any other
option than to fled for safety in a neighboring
countries where we could get peace; and we managed to
trekked a long distance from our country, SUDAN to
arrived at the lake -Chad for about two {2} weeks on
the journey before arriving the lake-Chad;and trying
to access the Republic Of Ghana where my father
deposited some money which we could use to recycle our
lives.
After arriving Accra, the capital city of the
Republic of Ghana three {3} days later, I contacted
the the bank where I was dully informed that the money
which my Late father deposited is still intact in a
account of the bank.
Please, this is the help, I want you to help claim
this money as a FOREIGN BENEFICIARY from the bank in
Ghana so that we would be able to further our
Education career and establish on a Business to live
for the rest of our lives.
And I want to assure you that we have mapped out
good % will be for your compensation and you can name
your % that you think is okey you can please let us know what is your will sir
we need your assistance because of the condition we
were now .
Please your response and advice is urgently
needed,while you can as well get back to us via
Email : gassan.fatimat_abub@yahoo.com Or
gassan_abub@yahoo.com
Thank you and remain Blessed.
Yours sincerely,
GASSAN ABUBAKAR.


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