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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: "FROM KHALID AHMMAD AND SISTER AMIE" <khalid_ahmmad03@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: khalid_ahmmad22@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:29:31 +0000
Subject: Assalamulakum Warahmatullahi Warabraakatu


Dearest One=2EAssalamulakum

Greetings to you in the name of Almighty Allah=2C Our names are khalid
Ahmmad and Sister Amie ahmmad=2C We are the only survive son and
Daughter of late Chief Dr Alwadi Ahmmad who was a cocoa farmer and a
business man in our community =2EWhiles he was still alive=2C he was so in
love

with estate development and was to organize an estate development
business but he could not fulfill his dream because of his untimely
death=2E

After his burial=2C his lawyer called us and handed over to me and my
sister an envelop=2C in the envelop was an instruction that he made a
deposit sum of =28$25=2E000=2E000=2E00=29 Twenty Five Million United State
Dollars in a

EBS BANK here in Dakar-Senegal=2C on be have of his foreign
partner=2Cthe money is in a trunk box that he wanted to use the money to
organize
the estate development business that in case something happen to him=2C

Upon our arrival here in Senegal were we are living under political
asylum which we contact the bank and we were advised to contact a
professional who will act as our foreign partner to handle all the
investment
so he can use the money to invest in any other business that may be
lucrative and have good yielding profit over there in your country=2E

Moreover we have contacted the holding bank to find out if the trunk
box was still in their vault and I was told that it is still there and
the instruction was that I the first son should come with a foreign
partner to retrieve the consignment=2E

On the certificate of deposit=2C the box was deposited as family treasure
so the holding bank does not know that the box contains money rather
contains family treasure=2E On this ground we are contacting you to help
us=2C so we can retrieve the consignment from the holding bank and put
the
money into any good investment you deem fit as instructed by my late
father=2E

We have all the inheritance claim documents concerning the deposited
fund consignment trunk box and anytime you request it we shall make
them
available to you and also i and my sister Amie has agreed to offer
you 30% of our total fund as soon as the consignment trunk box fully
handed over to your care over there in your country as our mandate
beneficiary=2E

We are waiting anxiously to get your reply of this mail so I can fax or
mail to you the certificate of deposit that was given to my late
father by the holding bank authority so we can proceed ahead and also
kindly
furnish us with the bank required information such as your real name=2C
home and office address=2C mobile phone and fax number and a scan copy of
your international passport or driving lances to enable us write and
submit a letter of nomination to the holding bank as our mandate
beneficial=2E

Reach us faster through our alternate mail address for security reason=2C
Email khalid=5Fahmmadyahoo=2Eco=2Euk


Thanks and remain blessed=2C
Yours True Son and Daughter=2E
Khalid Ahmmad and sister Amie Ahmmad


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