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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: Baghdadi Al-Mahmudi <baghdadiali.mahmudi01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: baghdadiali_mahmudi1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 14:45:44 +0700
Subject: INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP VENTURE

Good Day Sir,

My name is Baghdadi Al-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 assistant to late Libya head of state Col. Muammar
Gaddafi who was eliminated on 20th October 2011, by the rebels. My
good self and other Aids of Gaddafi were taken into house arrest by
the 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 your country 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.

Having gone through your yourself/company profile, I am interested in
an Investment/ partnership venture with you or your company for a long
time as I have euro 250,000,000 Euros, (Two Hundred and Fifty Million
Euros) ready for that which is deposited with a Security Vault company
overseas.

My Area of Investment interest is any of these ; HOTELS, REAL
ESTATE,AGRICULTURE, OIL
SECTOR & CONSTRUCTION, MINES AND ENERGY,ENTERTAINMENT, PHARMACEUTICAL,
TOURISM, ETC.

If the proposal is acceptable to you, I can let you know a way forward
and you can set up a live meeting with my lawyer as I am still in
detention here in Libya and I am among the 9 people sentenced to death
by firing squad with the late Gaddafi's son by the Libyan government
on Tuesday 28th July 2015, but I need a sincere mind and your
co-operation as my hands are still tied and can not do anything from
here and if you follow my instructions before our execution, I will
introduce you to my wife at her hiding place to deal with her in the
investment venture.

Thanking you for your kind understanding and cooperation as I await
your swift reply.

Regards.
Mr. Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi (Libya)

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