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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: Houzan al-Douri. <aus@hash.com>
Reply-To: houzan_aldouri@yahoo.es
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:16:22 -0300
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam

Dear Sir/Madam ,

Salaam

Please my English is poor read carefully my word ok ,yes I am Houzan
al-Douri ,Son of Ezzat Ibrahim al-Duri,the late Iraqi general,vice
president and former deputy of the late Saddam Hussein before the 2003
US-led invasion on Iraq.My father is suffering from leukemia was
killed on 17th of April 2015 during 25 minutes of exchange of gunfire
with a force of pro-government paramilitaries in Hamreen,as you can
confirm in website:(
http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-checks-claims-saddam-deputy-izzat-ibrahim-al-155451649.html
):

Since the death of my father,my life is in target as a result most of
my father's loyalist including my three Elder brothers (Ibrahim
al-Douri,Ahmed al-Douri and Ali al-Douri) is under hiding and secretly
fly oversea Countries due to fears and death threat we face every
minute of the day ,our home town of Dawr is not a safe place.I am
seeking your urgent help because I don't want to experience the same
thing that happened to Four of my late father's nephews who were
captured in January 2004(
http://www.dawn.com/news/347929/izzat-ibrahim-s-four-nephews-arrested),
two months after the arrest of his wife and daughter. I fly now for my
safety to Doha city in Qatar in undisclosed location for security
reasons.

I'm pleading for your urgent help to work with my attorney in Arab
Emirate (Dubai) to receive into your bank account a total sum of
Twenty Eight Million us$ Dollars that was saved in my name to a bank
but for security reasons could not apply directly to receive this
amount.If you have interest to work with my attorney whom all
documents were handed over to legally recover the money through the
help of a foreigner by his suggestion,I will accept to give 30% of the
total sum to reward your assistance ,while 10% goes to my attorney's
professional work and 10% will be use to handle all Expenses.

If you're willing to assist Me,please respond back urgently to
indicate your interest while I furnish you with more details,so you
can contact my attorney to prepare agreement between us for you to
declare in honest your guarantee in assurance to return my share when
you receive the whole money into your bank account,he will also
provide appropriately guide of what is required to proceed.

I await urgently to hear from you.

Thank you
Houzan al-Douri.

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