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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: "Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <baghdadialimahmudi@bahamamail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 06:49:48 -0400
Subject: RE: Get back to me as soon as possible

Dear Friend ,

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 assistant to late Libya head of state Col. Muammar Gaddafi who was eliminated on 20th October 2011, by the 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 $450,000,000, US Dollars, (Four Hundred and Fifty Million US Dollars) which I assisted my late former Boss, Col. Muammar Gaddafi to deposit 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 the real estate sector in your country or any profitable business as you may direct which is my reason for contacting you.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY:

On your acceptance to join hands with me for the investment of the money, the transaction shall be carried out this way.

(A) You will be entitled to 15% of the total amount for assisting me in good direction in carrying out investment of the funds in real estate investment or any lucrative business venture as you may wish and 5% shall be mapped out for payment of taxes and other expenses as the case may be.

(B) The remaining 80% balance of the total sum will be invested by you under a joint venture basis that will last for at least 10 years which the profit shall be revealed at the end of each fiscal year and shall be shared into 50-50 ratio after which both parties will contribute 70% of annual income and invest back to the company.

Upon your acceptance to my proposal, i will introduce you to my private Lawyer who will handle this process with you and also draft a Legal Binding document, (A memorandum of understanding MOU./Agreement), that will stand as a binding between you and i to protect the interest of both parties involved in this transaction 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 transaction, feel free to contact me immediately.

Please also note that i have made arrangements with my bank where the fund was deposited on how to assist you in opening an offshore bank 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 from your offshore bank account you will open to receive this funds first, you can start transferring the funds to your bank account in your country bit by bit for the investment purpose.


Finally, understand that you have to treat this transaction with utmost confidentiality for security reasons because human beings can be unpredictable, i don't want you to disclose this transaction to anyone as it may jeopardize all the efforts which i made in securing this funds for some years now in a foreign bank after the death of my former boss and please understand that this fund is my only hope to start my life all over again after my house arrest is lifted.


I await your urgent response.

Best Regards.

Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi.

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