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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: Shalab Al Khalil <vishadkumar217@gmail.com>
Reply-To: al-khatibb@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:39:18 +0200
Subject: Hello

Greetings,

How are you and your family today, I pray you are all safe and good?

I am Contacting you with a great confidence hoping that you are a very
reliable and trustworthy person and therefore would be helpful to me. My
name is Dr.Shalab Al Khalil, a Medical Doctor by profession / volunteer and
a member of the Red Cross, I am from Syria. I have been transferred from
the capital Damascus to the rural area of Ebla.I contacted you because of
the sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union, Which
prevent us from Securing our financial transaction here.I have the sum of
10.6 million euros Which I discovered in my brother's save ground, my late
brother Mizrahi Al Khalil, who was killed in the al-Omari Mosque
Massacre.He was a very successful contractor in Kuwaiti Oil city and was
privately dealing on gold dust and bars before his untimely death.

The ongoing civil unrest in my country Syria have changed my future and if
we come to a concrete agreement i will send the money to you for safe
keeping till i make my way and come to meet you in your country very soon,
please help me to achieve this achievement .I will give you 20% of the
total money (10.6 million euros) for your assistance / participation. I
hope I am been fair on this deal.Where i am now we can only communicate
through the Red Cross communication facilities which only permits me to
send emails and we can not make phone calls now because no network at Ebla
area since it was blocked by the government.

Please if you are interested in helping me in this transaction i will give
to you the complete details you need for us to Vehicle out this transaction
successfully.I have a very good means of sending the money out of Syria to
your country with the help of a red cross jet that brings relief materials
from Europe. Please, you are in a position to help me start a new life. I
have already lost my wife and my 12 year old daughter in the chemical
attack when i went to work to save the lives of other people. Please my
life is in danger in the hands of Asaad military and ISIS terrorist.

I would owe you my life if you help me. I wait for your fast response so i
can give you further details upon hearing from you. Please consider my
request for our mutual benefit and life ahead.I am so sure you know what i
am talking about please more information here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk
news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/.

My sincere regards,
Shalab Al Khalil.

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