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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: mrs yunis arshiya <presidency20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: yunis.arshiya2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 05:32:06 +0800
Subject: HELLO

Hello ,

I am sending this mail to you with a very reliable purpose, am a
citizen of Syria and work in the Inner government office, which is
office of the President of Syria, Bashar Al Assad, who turns to be a
top blood sucker on earth, killing his own people and committing
serious atrocities against humanity.

I am contacting you for one honest , sincere and serious benefit in
life, i work directly with the finance and economic chief, as the
general supervisor that supervise how funds goes out and comes in,
finally sanction was placed on all of us in the government here
including transferring and receiving funds, by the international
community, some of my colleges have defected to the opposition side,
and we that are still with this blood sucking President Basher Al
Assad, we are been monitored, through phone and internet
communication.

My main reason of contacting you is, to entrust you over un documented
fund deposited with a Security Company in Qatar, the fund was packaged
and was sent through the red cross diplomat to be delivered in the
Security Company in Qatar, the amount of this fund packed in a trunk
box is in total is : $180million US dollars, this fund was suppose to
be used to purchase weapons from Russia, but the sanction hit on the
government at the particular time there were planning to purchase
weapons both from Russia and China, but all the funds were stocked and
could not be recalled back, I managed to scale this through and packed
it in a trunk box and ask the red cross to deliver it to the Address
of the security company which i gave to them.

All i want you to do, is to reply back to me and i will send you the
contact of the security company, and they will be the one to direct
you on how to go down to Qatar to claim the consignment fund, please
do not disclose this to any one as my life will be in danger.

Please if interested kindly reply back to me, if not interested please
kindly inform me as well and delete this message for security purpose.

Thanks.
Arshiya Yunis Jabr

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