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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: "Dr.Sadeq IBrahim" <ibrahimsadek101@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <sadekibrahim11@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 02:46:55 -0700
Subject: Greetings My Dear Friend,

Greetings My Dear Friend,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not
a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to
you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet
and become great friends and business partners. Please I want you to
read this letter very carefully and I must apologize for barging this
message into your mail box without any formal introduction due to the
urgency and confidentiality of this business and I know that this
message will come to you as a surprise. Please this is not a joke and I
will not like you to joke with it ok,

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose, I make
this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance
to me. My name is Mr Ibrahim Sadeq, from South Africa, I work in African
Development Bank (ADB) as telex manager, please see this as a
confidential message and do not reveal it to another person and let me
know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below
because it is top secret.

I am about to retire from active Banking service to start a new life
but I am skeptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. 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 gold

and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the
continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transferring to foreign accounts, so 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 Bank 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 $5billion Dollars
during the process.

Before I send this message to you, I have already diverted
($17.4million Dollars) 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 ($17.4million Dollars) has been
laying waste in our bank and I don want to retire from the bank without
transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the
proceeds with the receiver (a foreigner). The money will be shared 60%
for me and 40% for you. There is no one coming to ask you about the
funds because I secured everything. I only want you to assist me by
providing a reliable bank account where the funds can be transferred.

You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am
going to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving
the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you a detailed
information on what to do. For me, I have not stolen the money from
anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face
any problems. This is my chance to grab my own life opportunity but you
must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no
one in the bank knows about the my plans.

Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this
project, I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear from your
confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted
associate, do declare your consent to me. I am looking forward to hear
from you immediately for further information. reply to this email
address; sadekibrahim11@outlook.com

Thanks with my best regards.
Mr Sadeq Ibrahim,
Telex Manager
African Development Bank (ADB)
South Africa.

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