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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: "Mrs.Nabila Moha Hassan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hassanmrs.nabila@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:45:58 +0100
Subject: Re: FYI.........(We need your reply urgent)

Good day,

I ask for your permission to contact you but will start by introducing myself better to you with explaination, My name is Mrs.Nabila Moha Hassan, I am from Libya and my husband is one of the late Gaddafi driver. it was my husband who took Gaddafi family to Algeria when they ran from Libya. But he came back to Libya and died when their convoy was hit by NATO bomb. But he told me something very important when he was alive so am contacting you for both of us to stand on confidentiality and Trust. My husband told me how he took some money from Gaddafi son and kept in a firm called Pizzaro Global Ghana Limited. He said the money is in USD 8.6 million and all kept in a big suitcase with 67kgram of gold that was given to him as a gift from his master for his hard work and honesty.

I will want to give you information about all what am saying because seeing is believing and helps to clear every doubt since its very

difficult to trust and believe anyone whom you have not met in person because of the rate of internet scam. I am presently out of Libya

since 2010 because we ran out during the war but came to Ghana just 2 months ago to locate the lawyer who was with my late husband when he

made the deposit. why am written you is because I want you to stand to help and take ownership of the funds and gold which my husband kept

because if people should knows that it belongs to my late husband they will size it and report to the Libyan government. my husband fight

and died for his master while i lost my 3 daughter's during the war so please you should understand why i said you have to keep everything

secret until I hear from you. and please all what am saying is just known by the both of us and nobody else apart from the lawyer which if

you can travel down to Ghana to see with your eye we are ready to meet with you so we go to the company together.

I have just my little son here with me which is my only hope of joy until i can get hold of what i just told you but I still have to be very

carefully not to lose the money or the gold so i need you to stand by me and my son all through this process till its completed.Am ready to

share and invest this money and the gold with you if you will assist me and you must be straight and forward with me please,please no lies.

Just for you to claim ownership of the money and the gold getting all the documents that we need since the lawyer said he must get documents

in your name as prove, therefore i will want you to know if you can stand to help me and my son then i will ask the lawyer to give me his

contact details so you will contact him and ask him how you can help us get the documents and take ownership.It will be my joy and happiness

that you help us see that the funds,gold is release so we can join you in your country giving my son a better education before the end of

this year

I will wait for your reply.

Respectfully,
Mrs.Nabila Moha Hassan.

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