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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: "Mr Zarti Mustafa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <zarti.mustafa111@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13.51.48 +0100
Subject: From Zarti Mustafa Confidential............



Dear friend,

Greetings to you my friend, How are you and work? Hope all is well?
This is a confidential proposal which will be of mutual benefit to
both of us if you agree to partner with me.

My name is Mr. Mustafa Zarti, the Deputy to Chief Executive Officer
and Member of the Board of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and
an old colleague friend to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (Col. Gaddifi's son).

We all are aware of the current crisis in my country, Libya. Due to
this crisis many assets and money belonging to Col. Gadaffi's family
and government officials are being frozen by western government, as
you can see on the following links –

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-libya-austria-assets-idUSTRE7284TE20110309

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/27/gaddafi-family-assets-frozen-queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WCp5rxNa1k

We have lost a lot and are losing many on a daily basis since Col. Gadaffi's
death here in our country Libya with some military soldiers.

I need your help to secure some of these funds because these are had
earned money and not stolen money, most of these money are by
contracts executed by the family. Examples are - BP's $900m 2007
Libyan oil exploration contract, Owns shares in Juventus football
club, Italian oil gian Eni, and Pearson, the parent company of Penguin
and the Financial Times, Has had dealings with numerous Western
financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and
the Carlyle Group.

Due to the fear of our assets freeze, i have in my position a
box with the sum of US$19.5(USD) in each I have authentic means
of transferring the money through Red Cross diplomatic courier service
safely to you for investments.I just need your acceptance and all is
done. If you accept, I will instruct you on what to do and make
arrangements to have the funds transferred to you successfully.

I am offering 30% and you will also help me invest 70% of my share
into any lucrative business in your country, where your government
will not take much tax from it, if you can, but if not please keep it
safe for me until everything goes quiet.

I guarantee you that this venture is risk free. If you are interested,
please, get back to me on zartimustafa@zing.vn for further details,
and if not, please delete this letter and do not inform anyone about
it.

Yours Sincerely,

Mustafa Zarti

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