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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: "S u l e i m a n" <AHMED@YAHOO.DE>
Reply-To: ahmeds00@foxmail.com
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:20:01 -0600
Subject: My late father has excess of USD $15M


My name is A h m e d S u l e i m a n, a S y r i a c i t i z e n, residing in refugee camp in B a h r a i n.

My father was killed in Homes city of S y r i a and his business office burnt down
because of his support to the rebels (The S y r i a n N a t i o n a l C o u n c i l) who
is currently fighting to liberate the good people of S y r i a from the
misrule of P r e s i d e n t B a s h a r A L - A s s a d.

The rebel leaders have tried all they could to persuade P r e s i d e n t
B a s h a r A L - A s s a d to conduct a free and fair election, and election has
been conducted which he won the election with his transitional committee
and yet no peace to S y r i a.

Anyway, let me not take your time with the situation in S y r i a as my
family was mostly affected. I lost my father- S h e i k A b u I b r a h i m S u l e i m a n,
his company burnt down in Damascus and most of the family’s asset confiscated because the forces royal

to P r e s i d e n t B a s h a r A L - A s s a d claimed that my father is supporting and financing

the rebels and as such I had to escape S y r i a with my wife and my two children to refugee camp

in B a h r a i n.

The reason for contacting you is because I need your business cooperation on how to invest in your

country, My late father has excess of USD $15M in my trust and private v a u l t in S y r i a and

I have concluded every arrangement with private v a u l t in S y r i a to move the fund out of S y r

i a as soon as you agree to partner with me to put this fund into property i n v e s t m e n t in

your country and if you are into any other good business that can guarantee a good turnover in due

time too its fine by me, this is because I want to invest the funds with overseas partners because

in S y r i a the political turmoil appeared to be continued for along time.


Please let me know if you have agreed to work with us, so that we can commence action. Please feel

free to contact me.

Let me stop here, hoping that you will respond promptly.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Thanks,


A h m e d S u l e i m a n
+97316195162

Email: ahmedsuleiman00@foxmail.com,

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