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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: "Al-Rasheed" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alrasheedus01@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:38:24 -0500
Subject: Frm Al-Rasheed, How are you?

Attention Sir.


It is my pleasure to contact you today. My name is Abdul Rahman Al-Rasheed,
I am a secret representative of late Abdel Fattah Younes the interior minister to late Mr. Muammar Gaddafi of Libyan who found dead in Benghazi during the revolution in Libyan. The late Abdel Fattah Younes was a friend and personal friend for 40 year to leader (Muammar Gaddafi) them later become the Head of the opposition forces Abdel Fattah Younes gestures as he arrives at Green Square in the Kish, Benghazi July 6, 2011, to demonstrate against Muammar Gaddafi and his regime, here after he was killed by gunmen in Benghazi.
Abdel Fattah Younes I am his personal legal aid on many deal with all his international associate to protect my clients interest with the opposite parties, I made the deposit of ?110 Million on behalf of my late client to a Security Company which is a confidential between myself and my client.

This fund had generated from Crude Oil shipment from Libya to Morrocco and from morrocco to Spain, before the payment of the oil was made, he gave me a name to make the deposit of this fund to a security company with the name Mrs. Samia Omar, for safe keeping and the purpose of the deposit is for investment.

Furthermore Going through dossiers of personalities in your country from my Late boss fine that i still have with me i fund your deatils i discretely
selected you for this proposition and wish to present you to the organization as the next of kin to the beneficiary and partner to the Mrs. Samia Omar to stand and make the claim of fund to enable them process and release the funds to you as a next of kin to Samia. We shall share in the ratio of 30/70 on confirmation of the delivery of the funds in your
custody.
With regard,
Abdul Rahman Al-Rasheed,
Email: alrasheedus01@gmail.com

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