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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: "Mr. Joharry Young" <jyoung@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: joharryyoung@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:49:43 +0100
Subject: Good Day!!!.


I hope this mail finds you in good condition and I hope you and your family
are in good health. What I’m about to share with you is a top classified secret,
which is to be kept very confidential from any other person, and I am sure
you will be quite glad if you co-operate.

I am Mr Joharry Young, an auditor working with (COSTAS) treasury security company
here in Malaysia as head of auditing department in this establishment. I have a
business proposal which i would like to involve you. on the 13th of September
2006, a client by Name "Yusuf Addin", A citizen of Libya and politician deposited
a trunk box containing the sum of $1.3millionUSD (One Million, Three hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) with our company for safe keeping who was unfortunately reported
dead on the 4th day of May 2007 whose death was as a result of his opposition to Late
"Muammar Gaddafi's Prolong leadership which led to the death of his entire family.

The deposition of the trunk box is absolute a top secrete as no body from Libya shares the
knowledge the treasury. Hence i decided to contact you as a foreigner to partner with me
to present you as the next of kin/beneficiary so that the trunk box will be released to you.
45% of the money comes to While 55% goes to you. The entire ground work would be carried out
by me and my lawyer.

Please get back to me ASAP with your direct phone number if you are ready for this, but if
you are not allowed by fate or circumstance to carry out this project with me,kindly delete
this email to avoid circulation because of its secrecy.


Best Regards,
Joharry Young

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