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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: "ahmed.salehnajem01" <ahmed.salehnajem01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmedsalehnajem@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 00:33:32 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: (GADDAFI LIBYA PRESIDENT DEATH SECRET)




With due respect, I am former personal investment planner to late Leader of Libya MUAMMAR GADDAFI. I got your contact details from the national wide e-mail user on my search for a capable and trustworthy person for this investment and decided to contact you directly after due considerations. Therefore, I respectfully insist you read this letter carefully before you either take a decision of proceeding or deleting my message as I am optimistic it will be successful for unimaginable financial benefit for both of us. I believe you know about the previous war and current crisis in Libya? Many families lost their hard-earned money and life during the war including myself that could only come out alive. I need your help to invest a deposited fund in your country, these funds are proceeds of contracts executed by late Leader of Libya MUAMMAR GADDAFI; Examples the BP's US$900M Libyan oil exploration contract in 2007, shares in Juventus Football Club, Eni: the
Italian oil giant, the parent company of Penguin and Financial Times including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and the Carlyle Group. In order to ensure that all of these assets are not frozen due to sudden death of original depositor who died as the result of previous war in Libya MUAMMAR GADDAFI, he deposited a sealed box with a firm that I can not mention to you until I get strong confidence and trust in you, the sealed box contains the huge sum of $39,700,000.00 United States Dollars. I crave your indulgence as I contact you in such a surprising manner although this medium of communication (Internet) has been grossly abused by criminal minded people making it difficult for people with genuine message to correspond and exchange views without skepticism. Anyway, I guarantee you that this venture is risk free giving that the funds are certified clean and your services as qualified Solicitor in your country will be retained. Be informed that for
participating in this deal, 32% of the total value will be for you as my co-operative partner while 65% will be for me as the principal initiator of the deal of which you will also help me to invest in your line of business. Then, the remaining 3% will be made available for the poor and war victims. If you are interested in running this transaction with me, kindly respond back to me but if you are not convinced to handle this deal with me then do me a favor by deleting this message from your mail box and help me seal the confidentiality of this matter. Regards,Ahmed Saleh Najem.

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