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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: "COL. AHM ABD MUSTAFA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <m.alisha889@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:35:23 +0200
Subject: For Your Urgent Attention-Funds Transfer

For Your Attention,
The Managing Director/CEO,
REF: Rebuilding Libya - VARIOUS SUPPLIES CONTRACT
Sir,
My name is Col. Ahmed Abdul Mustafa (rtd) and this is an urgent business invitation from Libya. My benefactor at the new American controlled Libya ministry has mandated me to seek for your cooperation in a multi million dollars worth deal. It happened that we signed supply contract on Building/Medical/Textile and General equipments and some of the contracts were inflated which after duly certified and the contracts assigned we have a surplus of US$58Million. Having access to pay this contractors by way of crude oil equivalent or raw cash recovered from some of late dictator's ( Col. Gaddafi's) assets, we choose to subtract this excess bills which we inflated in the contracts by defacing the whole bills into black which enabled us easy shipment of the consignments funds to a country called Benin Republic in a bank vault. Please if you can assist us, then kindly contact me via My E-mail: abdmust@superposta.com
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SEND INFORMATION ONLY DETAILING YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE,FAX NUMBER AND EMAIL based on your company abilities.
As soon as I receive the above information, I shall get back to you with all details pertaining to this transaction.
Regards,
Ahmed Abdul Mustafa (rtd)

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