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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: "Bashir Saleh \"Bashir al Shrkawi\"" <bbakare21@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bbakare20@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:27:06 +0100
Subject: awaiting your response!!!

Esteemed Friend,

Please pardon my intrusion as I am under pressure now. I am Gaddafi's
former chief of staff, named Bashir Saleh, and popularly known as
"Gaddafi's banker" a.k.a Bashir al Shrkawi. I am currently undergoing an
interrogation in South Africa by the Interpol as I have been on their trail
for years now. I am being held for interrogation,
questioning and tortured prompting me to reveal where other Gaddafi's loot
are kept.

I have disclosed some to them which and in totality they have recovered
over One Billions United States dollars so far. But the unfortunate part of
this issue was the fund recovered are not judiciously used by the reigning
regime in coalition with the supporting International community. I was
granted bail With the assistance of my attorney, a temporal one to be
precise and due to the injuries incur in the process of being tortured, my
attorney now having study the situation on ground advice in confidence that
it will be safer for me to nominate a new beneficiary to claim the existing
loot as any attempt for me to dare attempt the claim will result to further
forfeiture of the fund.

There are 3 more huge deposit still in the custody of a Privately owned
Security Company based in the Europe and 2 in Asia respectively. This is
where your attention is required and I will appreciate if you will use your
good statute to claim this fund as the new beneficiary. I will tell you
more when I consider it is safe enough to share more light on this subject.
The referenced matter will provide you the opportunity of having a sum of
US$32.7 Million United States Dollars cash starched in
these security companies, with no risk or any form of trouble/scandals
either now nor in future. I will send necessary details when I receive your
response with some assurances that you are willing to work with me and will
protect my interest and you would be transparent with me.

I know you may feel very uneasy with this as you hardly read lot of this
over the internet, so to cushion your fears I will provide you with
adequate proof of the fund for your confirmation as soon as we agree in
principle to work together.

I hope to hear from you soon to discuss this matter further.

Best Wishes,

Bashir Saleh "Bashir al Shrkawi"

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