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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: "RAGHAD SADDAM HUSSEIN." <rsaddam7@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:28:05 +0000
Subject: PLS REPLY

GREETINGS FROM RAGHAD SADDAM HUSSEIN.
I hope you will not be embarrassed receiving this mail, as we have not
had previous correspondences on this before. I am also believing that you
will not expose or betray the trust and confidence I am about to bestow on
you. I have decided to
contact you with greatest delight and personal respect.
I am RAGHAD SADDAM HUSSEIN KAMEL, the eldest daughter of SADDAM HUSSEIN
the former Iraqi president who was executed on the 30th of December
2006 after being found guilty of crime against humanity. I, my sister
Hana and some of my children are on exile and presently guests of the royal
family of Jordan (King Abdullah II) and presently in Amman .
Before contacting you on this matter I have thought carefully about
this idea, that I wish to invest this funds kept in my possession
before my father was captured. My father gave me this funds for safe keeping
and to do anything with it that would make me happy, because he
understood and believed that things were getting out of hands though he
never allowed it to show on his face because of the people around him who
saw
him to be firm and powerful. The said amount is USD$12,600,000 (Twelve
million six hundred thousand united states dollars).Which is been
secured.
Unfortunately this funds cannot come to you directly from were I am
presently due to some security reasons and due to our present situation
and predicament. Therefore I have already arranged for a successfully
means in which the funds have been already lifted out of here ( Jordan )to a
safe passage. If we do have to set the ball rolling, you would be
instructed on how best to have this money transferred to you, as l am
being careful as to safeguarding our transactions.
This transaction is 100% risk free so long you keep it very
confidential because of the bad blood some people have with regards to
my father's reign and brutal past, I will be equally making an arrangements
on how
to meet up with you as soon as the fund is in your secure possession if
and when the need arises.
You will be adequately compensated with 20% of the total funds as soon
as you do everything possible for the funds to arrive in your safe
possession, also understand that if this 20% is not enough for you due
to the expenses you think you will incure in making the funds get to you,
you are very free to state your proposal. I will also give you the
necessary data's you might need to secure the funds. If you are
interested please do furnish me with your following details (Names,
Telephone/Fax,Age, Country and Job status). And do reply me asap for
further
discussion over this matter.
Hope to read from you soonest .
Regards,
Raghad Saddam Hussein Kamel
PLS SEND ALL REPLY TO MY YAHOO EMAIL ADDRESS:r_saddam1@yahoo.com

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