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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Ahmed Gumel <agumel0056@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <agumel02@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:24:05 +0000
Subject: INVESTMENT OFFER



Dear Friend.

I hope that this mail will not be an embarrassment to you, let me introduce my Self I am Ahmed Gumel the first son of LateAlh.Mohammed Gumel of Mali who was assassinated by his political opponent.

My father was a politician and also a business man when he was alife,he has coffee and coco farm, my father's farm produce coffee and coco in a large Quantity which he use to export to western world. After the death of my farther i took over to run the farm and his otherBusiness as the first son.

I have been running all his business in a good Condition also i have been exporting coffee and coco to western world asmy father use to do. Now I want to invest with you or in your company as a partner, also i will be shipping this two product to you for sale. if I invest with you, you will be Taking care of the investment.

I want to have you as a foreign partner. Please if you are interested to work with me i advice you to send yourprivate telephone or mobile number so that i will call you and explain toyou more on how the investment will be carried on. I wait for your urgentresponse.

Thanks for your co-operation.
Remain bless. Ahmed.
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