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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: Zatima Ahmed <zatima142@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:07:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: zatima


Dearest,

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM

How are you today and your family? I do believe that Allah is really in control.Please, I would like to introduce myself as Mrs zatima Ahmed of Egypt,widow to Late Alhaji Umar Ahmed (for Consular of Egypt in benin republic and Bahrain,I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed now.

Please consider the transaction on it's content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not to dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.I decided to do this after praying over the situation.

Before the death of my husband he deposited the sum of US$ 2.4 Million dollars in african development bank and 350kg of dust Gold,my husband deposited with a security company in Benin of which I am the next of kin . With my health condition and because my husband and I have only one son who is 17years old, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin so that he will take good care of my son.As he is only a little boy.You are to adopt him as your son.

You will apply to the bank african development bank and request for the transfer of the fund to your bank account or you will come to Benin to signed for the fund. This is on the condition that you will take 25%of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, 30% for my son,while you will use the remaining 40% for the less previlege people in the society.

This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund will be used to carter for the less previleged Madrassas and also to orphangess expecially to children who will become Hafiz_e_Quraan.

If this conditionis acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will send to you the contact information of the bank and security company where the gold dust is deposited and you will apply as the beneficiary of the fund because I am going to present you as next of kin to the fund and also send the authorization that will give you the right of next of kin to the security company.

I cannot predict what will be my faith by the time the fund will be transfered into your account,but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above.I am looking forward on hearing from you.The future of my son is very important to me morethan anything.


Allah Hafiz
Sincerely,
Mrs zatima Ahmed and son,


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