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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: "mrs.mubarak@egypt.com" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pca.desk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:31:54 +0100
Subject: Still waiting for your reply here in Sharm El Sheikh,Egpyt.

FROM: Suzanne Hosni Mubarak,Sharm El Sheikh,Egpyt

Mrs. Suzanne Hosni Mubarak, the wife of the Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. I got your information from the list of philanthropist willing to assist the oppressed for any kind of help and I felt that you could help to handle my family's funds currently deposited with one of the top banks in the E.U.Countries. As you may be aware that my husband is presently facing trial on maladministration charges in Egypt and we his family members had moved to the estate, in Sharm El Sheikh and all our traveling documents have been confiscated to prevent us from traveling out of the country and all our family members traceable known bank deposits all over the world are being frozen like on the 12th February 2011, the government of Switzerland announced that it was freezing the Swiss bank accounts of my husband, Hosni Mubarak and all his family members on the order of Egyptian current care-taker regime.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/116968/20110228/egypt-mubarak.htm

Please, presently I and my entire family have what I will called "MY FAMILY LAST RESORT DEPOSIT" in one of the top banks in the E.U.Countries to be transfer to you with the help of our family Attorney based in one of the E.U.Countries,hoping that you will invest the funds into any good business in your country to be supervised by the same family attorney, pending when the political turmoil is over. Please if you are interested in helping me to received and invest this money with the help of lawyer that is presently in an escrow account in one of the E.U. Countries. Your legal protection will be taking care of by our family attorney over there,to ensure every aspect of the entire transaction is executed within the ambit of the law and just to let you know that my son, Alaa Mubarak will come over to your country immediately to start up a business with your assistance so we will be able save for the raining day.You can find out some of the story on this web link below:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/How-Hosni-Mubarak-Got-Filthy-usnews-3723955512.html?x=0.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law as it is a 100% risk free venture that's while you will be given contact details of our family renown Attorney also in one of the E.U.Countries to help file in all paper work. Kindly indicate your interest in assisting my family by providing the basic information below: your full name;your contact phone number;occupation and age in your next e-mail.

Thanks for your service in advance.

Signed,
Mrs. Suzanne Hosni Mubarak

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