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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: user@mail.com
Reply-To: drzarahlatifa@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 02:26:45 +0530
Subject: URGENT INFORMATION

Hello Dear

I got your esteemed contact during my comprehensive research for a reliable and trustworthy individual in your country, I will need your help in this situation, I find myself. I am really afraid and I do not know whom to confide in. I have some money I made in the president of Syrian compound Bashar al-Assads during our search in rescue team NATO.I have kept it as secret for a little while and I need someone I can trust to work and transfer this money out of Syria as a medical documents. Please I will need your help on this for I can forfeit 25 percent of this money to make sure is safely used for me until I will be living the army next year.

I will need to work with you in getting this money out of SYRIA, Please get back to me and I will make the arrangement on how to get this done because I have no one to confide in, I joined the army as an orphan and I do not have someone to confide in as I believe you will be of helpful to me. I will be reviling the said amount immediately you give me your word of confidence to go ahead for this is a very huge amount of money I had in mind to open and operate a firm in your country as soon as the money is in your possession, I want to invest the money in a very lucrative sector from my wide consultations, I was encouraged to focus on India because the economy is growing at a stable rate which prompted the United States President Barack Obama, to visit India to seek for access to the market. If you feel we can do this together judiciously, reply me via Email: More details for :( drzarahlatifa@outlook.com )

Regards,
Dr.Zarah Latifa

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