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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:
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: HASSAN SULEIMAN <hassan.suleiman@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: hsuleiman77@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:33:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dearest loving one
Dearest loving one
my name is SULEIMAN HASSAN am writting this letter to tell you who i am and the reason why am writting am from saudi arabia and am the first son of my parents and when i was born i find out that my life style is different from others when i was ten years old my parents send me to england for study along the line i fall in love with
mr KENNEDY and i love him so dearly that i cant do without him which i decided to call him my chosen one and he also call me honey so after experiencing all this love i found out that it is the best which make me to have nothing to do with women and dont even kno how they look like i came back to my country in 1973 now my father known as
MOHAMED SULEIMAN as one of the IMMAM in my country now my father and all my family rejected me because am not
leaving their life system now they are forcing me to marry a muslim lady because of their culture and i myself did not belive in culture things .and they said any body who disobey the law ussually be killed so it becomes a very big problem to me i have no choice than to run for my life back to England and when i came back to england six months latter on way comming back from work i discover that my chosen one have been assacinated through my people when i discover that they are now after my life i found out that staying in england is more dangerouse for my life i now ran to
IVORY COAST where they dont have any acess to locate me when i came to ivory coast in 1975 i fall in love with Mr YOUSEF KAMAL from morocco five years latter after we have been leaving together as one soul and i dont kno that he has something bad in mind against me he decided to take away my life so that he can inherit my acess along the line he hired the assasinete to kill
me because of my wealth so that he can inherit it on my way going home i was shot by the assasinate in my vihicule luckily for me some minuites later the police was around for my rescue and took me to the hospital after the investigations i found out that the one am in love with is responsible for my incidence since then i cant walk and am not with my self according to my doctor he said that i should avoid any telephone communications because the bullets caused many damages in my heart .and the doctor told me that am not going to last up to 7months and that is the reason why am writting to my lovily ones.i deposited the sum of three million five hundred thousand us dollars here in one of the security company here in ivory coast so i will want someone with goodheart and mind who will use this money according to my instructions
which is
1) to let the world kno that two men in love is not a sin
2)to use the money and let people kno
that it is the best life a man can live
3)to use the money also to finance our brotherhood who is not capable to assist themselves because we are one
with this as my death is aproaching according to the doctor as i die i will die happily please be fast on it so that i will send to you all the necessaries informations that backs it up
thanks and remain bless
from SULEIMAN HASSAN
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