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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: kareemsla@ymail.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:08:25 -0430
Subject: Greeting




Greeting

How are you? as you read this massage of me do feel for me because it is
the fate of me who will die some day. I am a naturalized British kareem
Slama by birth and a trading company based in the UK. I have been
diagnosed esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical
treatment, and now I have only few months, according to medical experts. I
regret that I have lived all my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone (not even myself) but my business. Although I am very well to do,
never gave me open, I was always hostile to people and they treated as if
it never had the hope of becoming as successful like me. Now I know that
there's more to life than just prosperity. I think when I get a second
chance to come into this world, I live my life in a way different from how
I lived. Now that death is imminent, and that I wanted to give most of my
belonging to the immediate and extended family members and few close
friends. I want Allah to be merciful I accept and my soul. Therefore I
have decided to support charity work, which is what I want to be
remembered for. So far, I have come to some charitable organizations in
Africa, Asia and America. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly,
When asked members of my family to helps me to give alms to the
organizations, catering for the less privileged in Bulgaria and Pakistan,
which denied the resources and support themselves. Therefore, no trust
them more because they do not seem to contempt I left for them. The last
of my belonging which no one knows, is the enormous deposit of two million
Great Britain pounds (GBP £2,000,000.00) I have in a safe maintenance of
the foreign Bank in United Kingdom. . Please, try to respond via email(
Kareemsla@ymail.com) for their time and dedication, I have reserved a
tenth part of it for us.

God be with you.


Slama kareem


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