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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: "Hassan Abdulkarim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <office.abuhasan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 12:34:08 -0000
Subject: An Exclusive Business Offer for You.

Greetings,

I am Hassan Abdulkarim, a Ghanaian married with three kids, I am the Chief Security Operations in security company here in Ghana. I write to solicit your kind assistance for classified business investment of mutual benefit.

In May 2010, one Mr. Amgad Al-Khateeb Syrian National, who deal on gold in Ghana and Asia, whom I was his deposit manager, he made a numbered time deposit of trunk box which contain US$14,200,000.00 for twelve calendar months in our company. Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered that Mr. Amgad Al-Khateeb from Syria, his wife, two children and wife's parents died in a bomb blast attack in Daraa. My investigation proved that he died with his supposed next of kin in the bomb blast. The trunk box which he deposited as Vital Documents is still in our company and the demurrage is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one has come to claim it.

Consequently, I shall present you to stand in as the next of kin to late Mr. Amgad Al-Khateeb. Thus, upon your acceptance of this proposal, I will give you detailed information on how this deal would be carried out. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law as I will use my position as the chief security operations to secure approvals and guarantee the successful execution of this transaction as you apply for the release.

Please if you are interested to work with me kindly reply urgently with your direct telephone numbers to my private E-mail ( office.abuhasan@gmail.com ) to enable me furnish you with the transaction procedures. But if you are not interested do not reply to this mail thank you for your corporation.

Best regards,
Hassan Abdulkarim.

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