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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: "Sherif el-Adly and family" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sherif_eladly101@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:42:35 +0400
Subject: MY DEAR BROTHER

FROM: Sherif el-Adly and family.
Dear friend, Good to you.

I hope you will not mind me writing to you, though I feel that a letter like this is the most confidential and effective way to contact you. My name is Sherif el-Adly, son of Habib Ibrahim el-Adly (Ministry of Interior (Egypt). This might be a surprise to you but I got your contact e-mail address in my father's directory. I was just checking on his magazines and the business diary that he stored and I saw your email. Am sure you are aware our enemies have used the Egyptian citizens against us and they want my father to go to jail.

They want to send my father to jail and they want to kill him. They have frozen all our bank accounts here in Egypt and also in U.S and England. They want to ruin us totally, not considering many years of dedicated service of my father to them. Read the bbc middle east news below. Click the website/link below to read about this injustice on us.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12655550
My mother is in bad health condition right now and the doctors need some funds to carry out an operation now that the cancer is early. We cannot access any funds due to the several confiscations on all our accounts and assets.
My father in detention disclosed to me that he moved some funds to London - England for a real Estate investment in United Kingdon. Since the Since the British government did not give approval for the project, the fund was left at the security company for safe keeping. He advised me to get a trusted partner to receive the fund from the security company for investment.

This is the reason why I have contacted you. I do not want to carry out this task with any member of my extended family or friends, we are very much afraid of betrayal as we do not know who have been feeding the present government most of our secret information. Most of our family members and friends have turned us down since the uprising in Egypt.

If you can genuinely assist us to move these funds out of Malaysia we shall pay you 20% of the total sum. The total sum is U.S$15.7 Million.
I intend to invest these funds in stock exchange and properties for now, until the entire problems die down and then I can move my family out of Egypt and we can settle in your country.

Our telephone lines are currently being monitored, but if I have your number, I will work out a way to give you a call. If you are interested in assisting us please reply back with Your full names, contact address, home and mobile telephone number.


Best regards,
Sherif el-Adly
For the Family
Email: sherif_eladly101@yahoo.com

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