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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: Ahmed Salami <bestones81@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmedsalami01@live.com
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:18:53 -0800
Subject: Dear Friend


Compliment of the season, my names are Ahmed Salami the only survival son
of Alhaji Usman Brahmin Salami from the Republic Of Congo, during the
crisis in my country Denis Sassou Nguesso and his supporters claim all the
big investments owned by the white people in the country, companies and
farms for his party members.

My father was one of the biggest farmers and gold and diamond merchant in
our country then, because my father strongly opposed his administration his
supporters invaded my father’s farm and burnt everything in the farm
killing my father and made away with a lot of machineries in my fathers
farm.

Before my fathers death he deposited $18million US dollars in a security
company in Ghana west Africa, these was money he planed to buy new
equipment in a new farm he want to set up in brazil.

After the death of my father we decided to escape to Ghana been one of the
neighboring countries to ours because of constant harassments from Denis
Sassou Nguesso troops. before my father's death he left a standing order in
the security company that the money should be release to me if an only I
produce a foreign partner that we help me to manage the money that is why I
have decided to contact a reputable individual that will assist me in
transferring the money out of Ghana and invest in a lucrative business that
is profitable, your role in these transaction will be 25%,5% for expenses
that may occur in the cost of transfer and 70%will be used for
investment(BUSINESS) in your country.

All I need you to do is to act as the sole beneficiary to the fund and
assist in claiming the fund from the security company as soon as possible.
I will be very glad if you claim the money and transfer it to your country
as permanent resident.

Note that this transaction is 100% risk free so you should however threat
this business with absolute confident.

All relevant documents to the claim of the fund are with me as the next of
kin. I shall inform you with the next line of action as soon as I receive
your positive response. Please kindly reply me with your full name, direct
fax number and personal phone number to enhance the confidentiality of the
transaction.

Best.regards.
Ahmed Salami

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