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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: Abdo Husasam <hussamabdo-@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:22:33 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLEASE


Dear Sir/ Madam,
Good-Times!
I am writing this mail to you with due respect, trust and humanity, I
appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter,
which I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. I
have a business of $10, 000, 000.00 (Ten Million United States Dollars
Only) to be transfer to your account for investment in your country.

You
must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially, because
we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that
most of the greedy African Politicians used our Bank to launder money
overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds
which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were diamond, gold
and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the
continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts, I also used the opportunity to divert part
of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how
much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were
being closed after transfer. I acted as the Account Officer to most of
the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed
in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their Banking records from
the Bank files, and no one cared to ask me because the money was too
much for them to control.

They laundered over $380Million Dollars
during the process. As I am sending this message to you; I was able to
divert $10, 000, 000.00 (Ten Million United States Dollars Only) to an
escrow account belonging to no one in the Bank. The bank is anxious now
to know who the beneficiary to the funds is, because they have made a
lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most
of the politicians are no longer using our Bank to transfer funds
overseas. The said funds has been lying waste and I don’t want to retire
from the Bank without transferring this fund to a foreign account to
enable me us claim it.

This fund will be shared between us in the
ratio of 50% for me, 40% for you, while 10% for any expenses that will
come-up during the transferring process of this fund into your account,
There is no one coming to ask you about these funds because I secured
everything and if you’re willing to handle this deal with me, kindly get
back to me with the followings; Your Full Name, Age and occupation,
your Private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication/your
personal picture and valid identity scan copy to enable me know whom am
dealing with, your location and full contact address. I will send to you
the letter of claim which you will apply directly to the Bank. Please
get back to me through this address hussamabdo-@hotmail.com

Note
I want you to keep this business strictly confidential for security
reasons, as you may know that the Bank doesn’t know that I am the brain
behind this transaction.
Best Regard.
Abdo Hussam

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