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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: "Arfat Al-mamud Fakri" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aafakri38@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:53:02 +0700
Subject: Good Business Opportunity


Dear Sir/Madam,

My Name is Arfat Al-mamud Fakri,Libyan and coordinator of national leadership council under late leader Colonel Muammar Muhammad Al-Gaddafi.

The opposition group referred to as Rebel group eager for a democratic political reform demanded that late Colonel Muammar Muhammad Al-Gaddafi must resign and another democratic political leader elected as he had ruled the country for 42 years.

He has refused to step down and this has lead to several months of wild destruction of life and properties in Libya, leaving every activities to be closed, nothing is working out any more here now and you can see this issue in world daily news broadcast like CNN, BBC, Asian News, CNBC etc. as top headlines.

Because of the problem in my Country Libya now, nothing were moving again as business places, Banks, Schools, hospitals and many other institutions were total out of place due to the serious war between Gaddafi forces and rebel forces so that is why I write to seek your guidelines and assistance to invest the sum of US$16.3 million united states dollars with you in your country.

This huge sum of money was money mapped out by late late Colonel Gaddafi to my council to train and educate leaders to support Gaddafi regime before the war started and looking at the position of things and my stand, I completely had nothing left for me as all my properties and investments had been destroyed by the civil crises (war) so that is why I need your help to invest this money for me so that it will be a new turning point to me as all I had worked in life had been totally carried away by the destructive war.

I want to assure you that my partnership with you is 100% risk free and without any hitch because no one knows the where about of this money as the documents proving the existence of the money were lost by fire when our office is hit by bomb blast during the civil crises.

My sincere regard to your good family and I wait for your positive interest to this issue but if not interested, please delete this message.

On a serious note, this information must be kept very secret between me and you till we are successful in establishing a good investment with this money.

Regards,

Arfat Al-mamud Fakri

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