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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi (Libya)" <baghdadiali_mahmudi1@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:47:46 +0800
Subject: PARTNERSHIP INVESTMENT....................................

Greetings,

My name is Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi Former Secretary of the General People's
Committee of Libya in late Col. Muammar Gaddafi Government in Libya. I was
one of the personal assistance to late Libya head of state Col. Muammar
Gaddafi who was eliminated on 20th October 2011, by rebel. My good self
and other Aids of Gaddafi were taken into house arrest by leadership of
the new
government till date. I assisted Col. Gaddafi our former President to
carry out most of his secret business deals ranging from exportation of
Gold, diamond, Alluvial Gold bar/dust and exportation of millions of
foreign currencies to overseas.

There is €250,000,000, Euros, (Two Hundred and Fifty Million Euros) which
I assisted him to lodge abroad in less than 2 weeks before his death which
nobody has any knowledge about, not even any member of his family, his
relative nor his close associates apart from me. I want to use the money
for investment purposes in abroad in any profitable business as you may
direct and i am seeking your assistance to achieve my aims. On your
acceptance to assist on evacuation and investment of this funds,I am ready
to share the investment proceed 50/50 profit sharing after the overhead
cost of running the business for a period of 5 years. Upon your acceptance
i will introduce you to my lawyer who will handle this process with you as
i am not capable of doing this due to the house arrest issued on me in
Libya.

TAKE NOTE:

The money is currently deposited overseas and be informed that the money
in question has nothing to do with my detention here in Libya hence no
living being knows about this fund or that the money belongs to my former
Boss apart from me. Also be assured that this money is free from any form
of illegality, drug, terrorism and money laundering. Please if you are
interested in this project, feel free to contact me immediately. I will be
delighted if you will update me with your private mobile phone number for
easy communication.

Finally, understand you have to treat this transaction as top confidential
for security reasons because human beings can be very jealous and wicked
so, i do not want you disclosing this transaction to anyone as it may
jeopardize all my efforts made to secure this fund till date and Please
understand that this fund is my only hope to start my life all over again
after i must have been released from this arrest.

I await your urgent response.

My Regards.
Mr. Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi

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