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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: suzanne mubarak <suzmubarak21@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:06:22 +0100
Subject: Honest Call for you - From Suzzane H M

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

Dear friend,Honest Call for you - From Suzzane H M

First and foremost, accept my forgiveness for the intruding your privacy
with this post without your prior notice. I am Her Excellency Lady Suzanne
Hosni Mubarak, the wife of President form Egypt.

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 my husband sentenced to jail along with my two
children, they forced me to accept plead bargain and Took away all my trust
fund charity foundations. Now, They Placed me on 24 hrs surveilance
monitoring, I have to use a brand new laptop to email this post secured
with IP protection.

I hope You Will not leak out to me the government that are already against
us? See the link below and Understand the need to-have this fund in your
possession on our Behalf quickly. Or you can use google to know more about
my plight.



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 or
corporate capacity. The fund is $ 30million contained in two boxes and
securely conveyed to Europe by a trusted official Diplomatic Personnel That
I will link up to you, when you've indicated interest to assist me and my
family by responding to this urgent call quickly.


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 negotiate further on sharing profit on investment 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 begin communication with you for the collection.

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

I await your response Urgently.

With trust,

Suzanne Hosni Mubarak.b

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