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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: "Tarek Abdoul Haziz" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <htarekabdoul@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:04:19 +0100
Subject: Re: your mail.

Dear Friend,


I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise coming from unknown person but all the same it is for a beneficial purpose. My name is Tarek Abdoul Haziz a native of Sirte province in Libya, the same area with Late Col. Muammar Gadaffi. I worked in many capacities in his administration and last year, during the rumours and early stage of war, he mandated me with other officers to travel to Italy with one of his presidential jets to negotiate and purchase arms and ammunition in readiness and preparedness for war.


On our arrival, we lodged the money in a certain finance company here in Italy and other officers flew back to Libya while one of the officers and I as the leader of the delegate stayed back for negotiations. On process of the negotiation, the war intensified and it became obvious that the NTC will take over government with the help of NATO; my colleague and I decided to stay back and change the storage of money to a Security firm in Spain; while also watching closely the outcome of the war. The money in question is fifty million US dollars ($50,000,000.00) which was meant to be the first part payment / commitment fee for the supply of the ammunitions.

Now the war is over as the oppositions have taken over power and as closed associates of Gaddafi; we cannot go back to Libya right now, my colleague and I are looking for an interested partner who we can trust to invest this money overseas. Our situation here deserves confidentiality and if you are interested email: (htarekabdoul@yahoo.com.ph) so that we can give you further information and discuss further. Thank you very much for your anticipated cooperation.




Yours Sincerely
Tarek Abdoul Haziz.
Email: htarekabdoul@yahoo.com.ph

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