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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: noel <office.file865@gmail.com>
Reply-To: noel <noel_rock@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:38:45 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Transfer from doha,Qatar


Hello,

I am more than happy to have find confidence in you. I read about you and have confident to get you involve to my personal life problem. My name is Noel Fabre Rock. I am 22 years old white, Mother American, father African. My mother is Brenda, a Texan American, sick and in hospice. I lose my father in Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 on March 8th 2014. Losing my father is like losing everything in the world. I think that God is unjust to let that happen.


Before my father's death, we were getting ready to move to our new home in Doha, Qatar and my father has moved his business and on the process of completing a wire transfer of (€18.5million) to Doha but unfortunately, due to some request for some kind of document by the bank, the transfer was on transit and never deliver before march 8 2014 when he was killed.


Following his death, my uncles came up from nowhere and steal everything, everything on the promise that they will help me and my mother. They never did and because we were busy mourning, we don’t know that we have been drained. Even the one million condolence gift from the government was stolen. They believe that I am a little girl and cannot do anything; well they were right because I did nothing. But unfortunately to them, the money which was on transit with my dad’s bank was not in his account and they knew nothing about it. I have been communicating with my father’s banker and have sent them every document they need to let me reclaim the money because I have the authority as my father’s next of kin. Please listen, I have my father's statements of account and death certificate here with me which I sent to the Qatar bank for report and reclaims. I will send them to you latter. So I will like you to help me:

* To serve as a partner or guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank account from the bank in Qatar as they requested. This includes getting some of the documents that is needed to release the money to me since my father did not leave a writing will, and undertaking the cost of transferring the money to your account.
* To make arrangement for us to come over to your country and find us good hospital for my mother’s treatment while I further my education and then settle permanently.


If you accept to stand as my guardian or partner, I need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, I am willing to offer you, (€5million) of the money and refund any expenses incurred on the process. As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist us with my proposal and also your full contact address / phone number, photocopy of ID, I will give you the bank contact information and then you can contact them to confirm and to know the possibility of transferring the money to your account. We kept this secret and the only person that knows about it is the banker I have been communicating with. So I will like you to keep it to yourself and do not tell it to anyone because I am afraid of losing the money if people get to know about it. I am giving you all this information due to the trust I deposed on you because our life is like a bunch of
craps and I can’t afford to lose my mother in this condition. She is the only thing that I have and losing her will be like losing my life too. I want you to write me back. You will never regret it if you agree to help me and my mother.

(I'm sending this message from my mobile device and i know that it may
contain some kind of warning when you receive it, but please do not
worry about the warning, ,my device has expired and that is why it may not be
recognize by some email domain since this is the first email you are
receiving from me)

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