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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: Mr.Ahmed Malik Abdul <bbb_mik@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: <malikabdula2176@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:12:24 -0500
Subject: =?utf-8?B?W1NQQU1d?= - Re Good Day - I need your assistance

Good Day,
I am Ahmed Malik Abdul a Syria and a seasoned Accountant/executive board of Directors with Al Baraka Bank Syria (AL BARAKA BANK SYRIA). It is with good spirit of heart I opened up this great opportunity to you. A deceased client of mine who died as a result of Syrian civil war with all the members of his family and he made a numbered fixed deposit with this branch valued $2.5M (TwO Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).
The Central Bank of Syria have made an announcement to all the banks to return all fixed deposit unclaim Fund in Result of Syrian Civil War, After the expiration of 1 years if no body apply for the claim it will confiscate as state treasury if no body apply for the claim, I am seeking for your support to stand as next of kin/ beneficiary to claim these funds so that we move it into useful investments, I am ready to share with you 40% for you and 60% will be kept for me, You will provide offshore account where the funds will be transferred to reason while I am contacting you is because I can not stand in the forefront to claim the funds alone because I am currently working with the bank.
I will like you to provide me with the following details if you are interested: Please forward your reply to this email address (malikabduull@gmail.com)
(1) Your Valid Direct Tel/ Mobile
(2) Your Full Name:
(3) Current Address.
(4) Your Private E-mail Address.
(5) Your Occupation:
(6) Your Age and Sex:
(7) Your Nationality:
Then i shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction without any delay. please discard this message if you are not interested. One Passionate appeal, I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with anybody, if you have any reasons to reject this offer, please and please destroy this message as any Leakage of this information will be too bad for me at my work place as the Branch Manager Al Baraka Bank Syria (AL BARAKA BANK SYRIA)
Thanks for your kind understanding.
Mr.Ahmed Malik Abdul

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