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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: "Madam Suzanne Hosni Mubarak" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jjrus002@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:13:06 -0700
Subject: Honest Call for you - From Suzzane H.M.

Mrs. Suzanne Hosni Mubarak
Family Country Home Resort
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Dear friend,

First and foremost, accept my pardon for the intruding your privacy with this message without your prior notice. I am Her Excellency Dame Suzanne Hosni Mubarak, the wife of former Egypt President.

Since February 2011 when my Husband stepped down from Egypt Presidency, we the Mubarak family have been devastated by the governments and military actions against us, they have seized all our accounts and business both here and overseas and imprisoned my husband, forced me to accept plead bargain and took away all my trust charity foundations funds. Now, they placed me and my children on 24 hrs surveillance monitoring all our activities, I have to use a brand new laptop to email this message with secured ip protection.

I hope you won't leak me out to the government that are already against us?

My reason for contacting a stranger like you is to erase every evidence of insecurity on the funds which I want to entrust to your care on private capacity or corporate. The fund in question is $30million contained in two boxes and already conveyed securely to Europe by a trusted Diplomatic official that I will link up to you after receiving your requested details. Though the Diplomatic doesn't know content as cash money because I declared content as family treasure and Its only me that has the code numbers to open boxes, which I will give you when you go for the collection from the Diplomatic officer.

If you are honest and trust-able I will hand over the control of the fund's packages collection to you and 30% is yours, then remaining 70% you shall invest in any profitable business for 2 years on my family behalf and we can discuss on investment profit terms later on.

1) Your Full Name: ___________________________

2) Your Address:______________________

3) Your Telephone Number:_______________________

4) Your Fax Number: __________________________

5) Your Mobile Number:_____________________________

6) The Name of the Closest Airport to your City of
Residence:____________

Please I need all requested information to forward to the Diplomat and authorize him to commence communication with you for the collection.

My situation is tensed and I expect you to keep this message and all our communications about the fund at your top most secret/privacy.

I await your response Urgently.

With trust,

Suzanne Hosni Mubarak.

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