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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: "gamal kassim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <galkasm@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:10:12 +0200
Subject: THANK YOU FROM MR GAMAL KASSIM.

Hello good day to you my dearest,
this mesSage may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have
not yet met or even known each other before,
I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any pains .As
you read this I don't want you to feel sorry
for me because, I believe everyone will die some day. My name is Mr
Gamal Kassim, a 62 year old Gold
merchant and a business man from Al Wahat, Ajdabiya in Libya. l
manage to escape with other libyan people and
other foregners that fled my country libya and crossed over to lapedusa
in italy on monday march 28 (www.euobserver.com/892/32075) and l am
presently in a town name Cremona in Italy.
l was recently diagnosed with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, that was
discovered recently when l got into italy.
This is caused by my laxity in caring for my health due to the part of
the world l am from where some body is not
allowed to travel every where he wants at all time. l have had this
lungs problems for some years now which made
me to travel several times to saudi arabia for medications. So far It
has defiled all forms of medicine and right
now I have only about a few months to live according to medical
experts. I have not particularly lived my life so
well after my wife and children died in a fatal car accident in my
country, since then I never really cared for
anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am very rich I was
never generous, I was always hostile to people
and only focus on my business as that was the only thing I cared for.
but now I regret all this as I now know that
there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money
in the world. I believe if i have a second
chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from
how I have lived it.
Now that I know my condition and my time is near, I have willed and
given most of my properties and assets in
oversea to my immediate and extended family members and as well as a
few close friends. I have decided to also
give alms to charity organizations as I want this to be one of the last
good deeds I do on earth before l leave
this sinful world. So far I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in the Saudi arabia and Syria,
now that my health is deteriorating and I cannot do this my self any
more I asked members of my family to close
one of my accounts and donate the money which I have there to charity
organization in Haiti and Japan they refused
and kept the money to them selves, hence, I do not trust them anymore
as they seem not to be contemted with what I
have given or left for them. The last of my money which is a huge cash
that I deposited in a finance company here
in Italy ,where I normally used to buy my mechandize and do some of my
business, I want you to help me collect this
deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations. l will also want
you to use part of this deposit for the
promotion of gay and lesbian right movement if you have the time and
means because I was a secret gay but due to
the part of the world where l come from,it is a ticket to death if it
is displaced open but i have not stop to
support gay and lesbian right movement because it is not any bodys
fault to be born this way.
You can start one such charity organization with this fund if you can
not just distribute all to charity. I am
writing this message from a laptop computer in my hospital bed in a
town name cremona where I am presently
receiving treatments under pallative care as I wait for my time to
come. As soon as I receive your encouraging
reply l will give you more information about this, like the amount that
l deposited and the contact of the
security company , so you can contact them. I will also issue you a
power of attorney that will aprove you as the
rightful beneficiary of my deposit. What I want mostly is that you or
the organization should always pray for me,
always be prayerful all through your life, it is very important to know
in this life time that Allah is great.
Please any delay from your reply will give me room to source for
another organization or individual for this same
purpose.You will take 20% out of the funds and use 80% to the charity
organizations. I pray that God uses you to
support and assist me with good heart. If you can help please respond
back to me on my private email; galkasm@aim.com
thank you in anticipation,Allah be with you.
MR GAMAL KASSIM.


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