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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: WEB MAILER <mailerweb1@web.de>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:06:41 +0200
Subject: REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP




REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP

Personal Email. ( Hammadanas1@yahoo.fr )

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself my names are Ham mad Ana’s a citizen of IRAQ and my father was one of the military officers who was serving under the sad dam Hussein regime that was removed by the Americans. My father died during the war and before he died he left $12m under my custody which I deposited with a security firm here in IRAQ following the arrest of Saddam,s members of his cabinet I was also apprehended as the only survival of my family along side with some other top officials family for house arrest which I am under going serious interrogations till now all our documents were seized and taken from us to avoid escape we are placed under tight security and we do not know what the future holds for us I manage to contact you with a local internet from the camp and we are not allowed to leave unless for medical reasons neither are we allowed to make any transaction from here for now.

I want to assure you that nobody knows about the funds with the security company and this transaction is 100% risk free and i have instructed the security company to ship the boxes of funds out of IRAQ for safe keepings unknown to them marked as family valuables treasures to their affiliated security company in Abroad.

My fear now is loosing the entire money this is why I am contacting you to help me clear the boxes of funds from the security company. I have all the documents to archive this goal although I don’t know my faith for now if we will be freed but I don’t want the whole money to lost just like that I thought it wise for me to give out the fund since I do not know what will happen to me from now .

All I need now is your honesty and trust to help me get this funds released from the security company on my behalf .I want to invest most of the money abroad in real estate business to avoid loosing the money, because it is not wise doing business in the atmosphere of fear here in Iraq,. If you are truly interested please furnish me with your.

1) Real Names

2) Phone/Fax numbers

3) Occupation

4) Residence address

If you can honestly collaborate with me, i am ready to pay you up to 25% of the total amount if you can sincerely assist me I wait patiently for your urgent response to my personal email above then I can explain more on how to finalize this transaction for security reason

Mr. Ham mad Ana’s.



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