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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: "Miss,Nabila Mustafa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nabila.mustafa@rocketmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:29:12 +0530
Subject: I NEED YOU URGENT ASSISTANT

 
Dear Belvoed
 
i greeting to you i know this mail will come as surprise to you,is just am in need of help
My name is Miss Nabila i Saw Your contact information address at the site as i was searching for a true love friend and reliable man because i want to find happiness and to be apart of a unique and special love after going through your profile i became interested on you if you do not mind, I will like you to contact me back with my private email address
(nabila.mustafa@rocketmail.com ) so that i can give you my pictures for you to
know who i am, although the flesh online searching for a true and honest man I
believe with you i can find happiness again,remember color, language or distance does not
Matter but Love matters a lot in life.and caring/understand
 
meanwhile let me introduce you about my self fully, as i stated before my name is Nabila,Mustafa Bin Dardef, I was born in LIBYA, in Africa, but now I am in UK as a result of civil // political war in my country, I have one 5 "8 tall, I'm 23 years old, Unmarried. I high, medium, with the back hair and black eyes?. I'm doing my first year as a course of a medical student at the University LIBYA, before the war. I grew up with my Family?. before I lost my parents. I am the only daughter of late Mr.Mustafa Bin Dardef.
 
My Father Mr Mustafa Bin Dardef is the formal chief adviser of  Libya's National Oil Corporation,in my country before the Gaddafi rebels attacked our house one early morning and killed him along with my mother because he does not support Gaddafi on his evil act. It's only me that is alive now I managed to make my way to south africa from south Africa i enter UK with the help of United Nation, where I live now.I have one older Brother and two younger sisters?. and 2 uncles.but I lost all of them expect my uncle, who is leaving at the present time a single state America.But please do not let that scare you,
 
. My condition here is terrible Its just like one staying inside prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out here one day I don't have any relation now whom i can go to, all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war.  I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.Please listen to this,i have my late father's statement of account and death certificate (as next of kid) here with me which i will send to you later, because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $5.7m (five Million seven Hundred Thousand Dollars) So i will like you to help me transfer this money into your account because the bank said that i should provide a foreign partner who will stand for me for the transferring and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to
Thanks
Sincerely MIss,Nabila.
 

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