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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Arafat." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.suha@gmx.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 16:31:12 +0800
Subject: Hello dear

This is Mrs. Suha Arafat, the wife of late Mr. Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian former leader who died in Paris, i have 50,000,000 $, Million us dollars which want you to help me keep save in your account because the present leader want to seize all our assets, after the death of my late husband, i have been facing a lot of problem by the present leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the new Prime Minister, they have so far seize most of ourassets both here in Palestine and in abroad, i have lost confidence with everybody in the country, at the moment,

i hope you must have heard about my late husband in the median or in the internet, you can click these bbc news website to
know about the issues http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3479937.stm
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/08/17/p18919

if you are capable to handle this transaction with me, please send me your information immediately, i will tell the bank to transfer the 50,000,000 $, Million us dollars to your account in your country for safety, if possible help me establish an investment in your country in the name of my daughter miss Zahwa, and when she come of age she can take over the estate, because i don’t know what Will happen nest as the Government are putting more effort to make sure they seize all our assets, this is my actual reason of looking for anybody that can be honest to me to assist me on this condition, me and my daughter will come and meet you when i am free from this issue, please i need your urgent feedback, we will discuss the percentage which i can offer you for your assistant,

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