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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: "abdul youssef" <abdul_youssef2@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: abdul_youssef5@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:16:27 +0100
Subject: I NEED YUR HELP

Dearest one,

Good day to you over there how are you doing today ??? hope you are okay ?? Please bear with me for sending this letter to you surprisingly.

My name is Abdul Youssef a young man originally from Liberia in west Africa,
presently i am residing in the refugee and the reason was because of the war that happened in my country of origin which i lost my Dad & my Mum , it was a very sad story

My late father was one of the director of GOLD & DIAMOND mining company and he was the personal adviser to the former head of state , but it was one early morning that the rebels attacked our house and killed my dad & my mum in a cool blood it was me and my Junior sister that managed to made our way to the near by country where we are now in the refugee camp. ,now l have one more thing to tell you about myself and l do hope that we can work out this together if it interest you and more l will like you to keep this very secret to yourself.

I will want to let you know that before the death of my father,he made a deposit of some amount of money in a Finance Company over there in Europe and also as God may have it as if he knows that he may die he used my name to fix the money as his next of kin and that means as he is no more l stands to claim this money as mine,now the reason why l am telling you this is that because of the nature of my status l cannot be able to do this because l am leaving here now as a refugee,and that is the reason why l am telling you this in other to see if you can be able to assist me in retrieving this money out of the custody of the Finance Company and possible using it for investment and also to enable me move out of this place and to see that l will finish up my education with my junior sister.

I will like to tell you that l have made contacts with the Finance Company appex and for the verification of the deposit details and all was right,for the fact that l believe we have a lot of enemies and some of them l believe arranged to the death of my father l will not like this money to come back to this place Africa until l finish up my education.

Please l will like to know your response to my mail and will also appreciate to have a direct phone and fax to enable me extablish good contact with you and give you the full contact of the Finance Company,I will close this mail now

I am looking forward to hear from you soonest.

Best Regard
Abdul Youssef .


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