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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: "MANSOOR ABDOLRAHMAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mansoorabdolrahman7@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:01:10 +0530
Subject: Assalam Alaikum,

Assalam Alaikum,
Your contact was given to me by this United Nations Soldier who served in Libya
under the United Nations NATO force in Lybia during the NATO Bombardments
of Lybia and whose Photograph is among the group photograph taken of me on a
stretcher on our way to the airport on that fateful day and which is attached
alongside my international passport ;When i told him about the need for me to
move to your country and invest in fishing trawleys before he told me that you are
one of the big people in your country Business Community who can assist me
with the kind of information i wanted to know from him about the
Fiscal/Budgetary or Tax Policies of your country Government in the last couple of
years.
It was then that he gave me your name and i later researched the internet and
got your contact and profile which impressed me so much that i resolved to
contact you immediately now that i will soon be dischrged from the hospital so
that i will then take a straight flight from Heathrow here in London to join you in
your country immediately you confirm reciept of the "cargoe" from the Diplomat
who will be assigned to accompany it to your country.
I am an average-aged man of 41 years of age,an Iranian of Persian origin.
I lived in Tripoli; ,Lybia where I owned a flourishing currency trading
company(Bureau de Change,before the NATO airstrike in TRIPOLI that razed my
office building to void and caused my business a tremendous setback after killing
a few staff including Alas,my wife and pretty daughter, Nadia.
The reason i contacted you is to tap from your wealth of experience to enable me
have access to a more viable investment and to find out if you could guide me on
your country Fiscal or Budgetary policies in the last couple of years so i can
invest my money in your country without encountering any issues with your
homeland securities operatives over my non citizenship status which would have
been the case if i were to incorporate a limited liability company in your country
without partnering with a capable and bonafide citizen of your country;since It
has become inevitable for me to diversify the scope of my investment and leave
Tripoli for a more stable business climate like your country because i can no
longer guarantee the security of my life and property back in Lybia,especially
now that most of the people i was indebted to who knew i was on seat the day
my office complex was razed down,think i am dead by now.
Meanwhile i am still receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Lancashier
General Hospital here in Haslingden Rossendale,UK where i was flown to by a
certain UN Doctor from Madrid Spain because I did not want to be found among
the casualties & survivors for obvious security reasons ,knowing that i have 135
million dollars cash in my Safe Deposit Boxes.I later concealed the money
among some ancient golden artefacts in my vault and deposited it in the
Bonded Warehouse of a Diplomatic Courier Service Company in Madrid-Spain
that can deliver the consignments to any destination i choose to settle away from
Tripoli whenever i am discharged from the hospital.
But look at me now still here after all this while and obliged to keep paying the
daily demurrages and security charges on the cargoe untill i am discharged from
the hospital next month,Insha Allah. I had thought and planned accordingly, that i
will not stay here in the hospital beyond the three months i was told initially by the
doctor it will take for the plastic surgery to heal completely. That is why i think it's
wiser now to contact you and use the money i raised from the sale of the ancient
golden artefacts and paid into my Credit Card Account here in the UK ,to settle
the total charges and the courier cost of delivering the consignment to you in
your country, instead of allowing the deposit there at the warehouse in Spain to
keep accumulating more and more bills which i may not be able to afford from
what little that will be left in my credit card account after i settle my hospital bills.
You have nothing to worry or fear about because nobody else apart from Allah
and you ,knows that i have such a huge sum of money in the box and not only
the Ancient Golden Artefacts which i declared in the manifest of the deposit
certificate.
Besides the money can never be detected by any currency detecting machine at
your Local Airport ,because of the special packaging,diplomatic imunity and other
privileges which the accompanying Diplomat will be accorded at your local
airport when he arrives with a D/L TAG on the cargoe.You know i have been in
this money business for quite some time now and this is the only way we can
move huge sums of money to our numerous customers around the middle east
and world without encounterring any issues as long as it carries a DIPLOMATIC /
LUGGAGE TAG on the cargoe.
So let me have your full infomation so we can negotiate on the commensurate
percentage of the total sum i shall give to you for assisting me to see this deal
through and to enable the Diplomat contact you to deliver the Safe Deposit
Boxes to you as soon as he arrives.
You can call me between 08.00 in the morning to 18.00 in the evening UK time
,when the doctor is most likely to be on sit ,so we can talk and work out the
modalities and the % issues.
Do take note of my yahoo Email id : mansoorabdolrahman772@hotmail.com
I await your response .
Best regards.
MANSOOR ABDOLRAHMAN

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