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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: "Said Mamoud" <saidmamoud@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: saidmamoud007@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:35:57 -0400
Subject: To whom it may concern.

To whom it may concern.

I am Said Mamoud a native of Misrata and a son of one of the leading opposing
figure to the government of Col Moammar Gaddafi.I am 19 years of age and an
undergraduate in the Qar Yunis University in Benghazi.Following the political
resentment and uprising in Libya which has inadvertently degenerate into a
civil war, the Col Moammar Gaddafi regime announced what is tagged the total
massacre of his political opponents and who he had called dissidents to his
rule in Libya. In this event, the Ghadaffi government declare the total whip
out of the prominent leaders in Misrata wherein my father has been one among
these leading figure.

On a fateful day while in school, watching the unfolding events going in my
country on the television particularly on the Aljazeera i saw a caption on the
area around my neighbourhood close to my father's house where the pro-Gaddafi
forces had surrounded with their weapons of destruction and something struck
my mind of my family and immediately i received a message on my phone that
the pro-Gaddafi had just struck my neighborhood and that our house was one of
the major target by the Gaddafi forces and to make the whole world down on
me, my father was brutally eliminated from the surface of the earth this ugly
events made my mother collapsed seeing her husband swim in an ocean of blood
and was rushed to a nearby hospital by a member of the Red Cross but
unfortunately she could not live to explain it all as death claimed her away.

The Red Cross team and other people on rescue mission took my two kid sisters
away for proper care where i often go to pay them visitation and until i
discover how endanger my life could be, that i had to flee away for dear live
to a neighboring country specifically Ireland as a refugee. I have been living
as a refugee since the whole incidents happened that i could not even go back
to my country in search of my sisters who i believed remain as the only family
i have on earth. During the lifetime of my late father, he was an
industrialist, a businessman and a philanthropist who owned a large steel
producing company and other assets measurable in monetary terms.

Prior to his demise, he had a financial portfolio of $35.8 million United
States Dollars, which he deposited with a financial firm (United Assets
Management Sarl) in United Kingdom as part of his investment. However, i have
always known of this investment abroad since i was 14 years because, my father
of a blessed memory had always made it known to me that on my graduation from
the university and after my master in my course of study, i will be
representing his business interest abroad. How painful is death to have
short-lived his dream.

I have made a relentless efforts so far to contact my father's attorney who is
in charge of his estate in the person of Sir Charles Broughton whose office is
in London United Kingdom to know more about my late father's wealth and how i
could go about claiming the estate but unfortunately, the attorney brought to
my notice that he could only proceed on handling over the estate to me when i
have attained the age of 24 or wherein a person of a full contractual
capacity is brought in to fulfill the obligation as stated in the will left
by my late father. As further explained by the attorney, the person of full
contractual capacity could be a relation or a trust.

I have been a person of desperate soul to get rid of my father's estate
because the attorney himself is an aged man in his late 70s and am afraid
death could visit him at any point in time and this might jeopardize my chance
of claiming my father's estate.

At this point i am consciously taking my time to source for a very business
minded person, who is also a God fearing and who will create time to rescue me
from this dilemma to claim my late father's estate and also a person who will
guide me on a flourishing business to invest my own share of the claim. You
can get in touch with me on my personal email address:
saidmamoud007@hotmail.com so that i can furnish you with the information to
reach the attorney as i had earlier mentioned for more detailed information.

sincerely,

Said Mamoud

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