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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: Javed Mubesher <dkr.idris@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fijeh3@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:54:57 -0700
Subject: FROM JAVED IN SYRIA

My Dear Friend,

I am Javed Mubesher (a Pakistani) living in Homs, Syria. I lost my
parents, two sisters, and relations with our family assets/house
during the recent war in Syria. I was just lucky to be alive after
participating in the protest. The civil war in Syria is growing more
apparent as the conflict steadily intensifies between the Alawite-
dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the mainly
Sunni rebel Free Syrian Army. At the start of the rebellion before
this tragedy, my late father who was a businessman who dealt on GOLD
& DIAMONDS and made good savings from his business, withdrew all his
money from the bank and packaged it in a box labeled as GOLD &
DIAMOND but concealed in it is the sum of USD12 million in cash. The
box was safely moved out of Syria with the help of a Diplomat, for
safety of the funds due to the rebellion against the government as he
was an anti-Bashar al-Assad and supported the protesters. He did not
want Bashar al- Assad barbaric government to seize his funds at the
bank.

I seek your urgent cooperation to take delivery and keep safe the
box/funds and assist me relocate to your country as I am presently
stranded here and have no access to it. Presently I have receive
email from the diplomat confirming he has safely moved the box away
and deposited it safely at a diplomatic courier warehouse abroad. I
am writing you to assist me receive this box in your country, and keep
safely for me until I am able to relocate from here. You have my
permission/authority to collect 20% of the funds on receiving it, for
your timely assistance. Please indicate your readiness to assist me
immediately so that all the information about this box will be
passed to you immediately. Send to me immediately the following
information; 1. Your names, contact address, and telephone numbers.
2. Date of birth, occupation, sex, marital status and identification
copy for documentation purposes. As soon as I receive your reply
mail I shall forward your information to the diplomatic courier
company abroad to contact you for the delivery of the box to you as
my proxy. I shall send you the Power of Attorney to present to the
diplomatic courier company so that they can release the box to you.
Please help me and reply me immediately you receive this mail via my
email: fijeh3@yahoo.com

Your friend in need,
Javed Mubesher
(Syria)
Email: fijeh3@yahoo.com

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