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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" <Bam10@hgregr.jp.tn>
Reply-To: <baghdadi.mahmudi73@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 11:45:03 +0100
Subject: Business Transaction from Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi

Attention Sir:

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 was taking 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 foreign banks.

There is €250,000,000, Euros, (Two Hundred and Fifty Million Euros) which I assisted him to lodge in a bank in Europe 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 in a bank in Europe, (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.

Please note that i have also made arrangements with the bank where the fund was deposited on how to assist you in opening an offshore account in your name where the funds can be transferred into in case you don't want the money to be transferred to your account in your country directly because of the huge amount involved. Then you can transfer the fund to your account in your country bit by bit for the investment purpose.

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 in a foreign Bank 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.

Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi

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