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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: "Mrs. Zinab Hassan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hzinab@rocketmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:08:07 -0000
Subject: My name is Mrs. Zinab Hassan;

Greetings in the name of the Most High Allah.

I know it will be a big surprise for you to receive my email. Please I beg you in the name of God and I swear to the Allah I worship that what I am telling you is not a joke and seriously and sincerity of purpose. I need your assistance to move my valuables, cash and confidential items to your up keep.

My name is Mrs. Zinab Hassan; I am from Libya and my husband is the late Gaddafi son’s driver who died in the revolutionary war. My husband worked with the Gaddafi family in trying to escape to Niger and Algeria when they ran out from Libya.
But he came back to Libya a night before the convoy was hit by NATO bomb and he told me something very important and gave me the document to some deposit. He told me about some money he transport for Muammar Gaddafi family vault and how he kept it in a security company that the name will be withheld for now. And the money is in Us Dollars about 8.6 million Us Dollars and all kept in two big truck boxes with a security. Note that my husband deposited the boxes money in his name as mere art work with the security company and I need your urgent attention to move boxes out of the shore of deposit as mere goods, because I do not want the company to find out the real content of the boxes and that the boxes belongs to my late husband and report to the Libyan revolutionary government.

I shall provide you more detail information of all that will enable the security company move to the package to you or claim them as deposited.
I am presently out of Libya because we ran out after the death of my husband. The rebels are still searching for me and my children, because they know that my husband was very close to Muammar Gaddafi and family.

I solicit your confidentiality to move these packages out of present deposited to your custody pending when I and my children will find escape route to meet you for refuge.

Please I don’t want you to discuss the issue with anybody, as the whole country and friend turn against Muammar Gaddafi and my family who supported him.I will not be able to tell the stories on mail but when we meet, I have 4 children for my husband, today we are finding it very difficult to live on daily basis right now, until I can get hold of what I just told you life is miserable for us, But I still have to be very carefully not to lose the money. We are very willing to share the money with you if you will assist me. Just for you to claim ownership of the money and the valuables we are ready to give you any percentage of the money you might demand when it is under your control.

I will provide you all the information concerning the deposit as giving to me by my late husband and how you can receive the money as mere packages when I hear from you.
Please provide me the follow contact information

(1) Your direct mobile/number: (2) Your identification name: (3) Your age: (4) Country resident address: (5) Identification such your ID (6) occupation.

Thank you for your trust and confidentiality, I will wait for your urgent response, Email:hzinab@rocketmail.com
Mrs. Zinab Hassan

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