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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: "Ali Khoury, Jr." <a4khoury@yahoo.co.id>
Reply-To: ali4khoury@yahoo.co.id
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:48:21 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Requesting your assistance



Good Morning,



With due respect to your personality and with much sincerity of purpose I make this

contact with you, I also apologize for any inconvenience this my letter would cause

you but please accept me and assist my family as our future solely rest upon this

request.

My name Ali Khoury, Jr., 29 years old young man from Syria. My late father's name

is Mr. Ali Khoury, Sr. My late father was a well known foreign currency exchanger/

trader here in Damascus Syria until 2 months ago when he was assassinated by a

sniper shot fire by the government forces while he was addressing a protest rallies.

You might have read from one of your local news about this conflict that has been

going on in our Country for the past 10 months which has claimed thousands of our

peaceful protester's lives. You can read more about the situation in our Country on

this websites below;



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/

nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/syria/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/syria



Since the death of my father my family has been living in fear daily and everything

belonging to my late father has been seized by the government agents claiming he

is one of the financier of the protest against the regime.



The reason I contacted you is to seek for your advise, assistance and cooperation

to retrieve and invest for my family the only treasury of my late father outside our

Country which he was supposed to take its delivery before the conflict was out of

control.

I want to take this action urgently as I am afraid the government agents might find

out about it and also confiscate it.



Please can you assist in retrieving of this treasury and also investing it for my family

in your line of business or in any other profitable venture that will be under your care

under a mutual beneficial agreement between us while my family continue to look

for means to escape from this our Country to the refugee camp in Turkey.



I look forward to receiving from you soon if you are willing to assist me.



Sincerely,

Ali Khoury, Jr.

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