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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.Gilliard.Duke <info@mail.com>
Reply-To: <gilliard.duke@mail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:42:23 +0200
Subject: Dear friend,

Dear friend,

How are you today? I am heading the Legal department of a Financial faim
here in Benin.I assisted Khamis Gadhafi, the son of the late Libyan
President to deposit the total sum of ten million, five hundred thousand
dollars ($10.5million dollars) with our bank during the uprising and
bombing in Libya. He hoped to claim this fund when the war in Libya might
have ended. I kept this a top secret till without letting other staffs of
our bank know the true identity of the depositor. But my client who was in
charge of 32nd Brigade known as Khamis Command was killed after a battle
with rebel forces between the villages of Tarunah and Bani Walid in
Northwest Libya, near Misrata. The fund does not belong to me but I have
access to all classified information about the fund and want to make the
ownership/beneficial of the fund changed to you.

It is as a result of his death that I decided to have this money
transferred out of Benin to a place where it will be invested wisely into
a good business. Note that I am the only person that knows that this fund
belongs to Gadhafi family and as a result of the money trafficking laws
that is in our country now, I have made all necessary arrangement to
enable this money to be transferred through our online banking system.

I will give you 25% of the total money while 65% will be for me and 10% of
the money will be used to settle any expenses accrued by you or me during
the process of actualizing this transaction. Note: This is risk free as I
am going to provide the entire backup for the smooth process of the
transfer of the fund into your bank account, so there will be no traces
that this money belonged to Gadhafi's family.

Now, all I need to start the work is your full name, address and copy of
passport or id card, telephone number I will secretly fix your name and
address as the owner/depositor of the fund. I have gotten a man that works
in our central computer system to assist me on this. Once your name and
addresses are fixed as the owner of the fund, I will then guide you to
contact the bank for immediate online account access and transfer of the
fund to your account.

But before that, you have to assure me that you are not going to disappear
with the money wwhen it is successfully transferred into your account.

Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk (100%
risk free) Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us
and your readiness to receive this fund from us and keep it save till we
come to your country and share it, you are then required to send to me
immediately the below information for security reasons and onward action
towards this business deal.

As soon as I receive this required information, I will give you
information contact of the Financial faim where the funds deposited. But
before that, you have to assure me that you are not going to disappear
with the money when it is successfully transferred to you in your country.

Before I am able to give out the information that will enable you access
the fund I would need some information as follows:

1) Your full name..................
2) Your private telephone numbers..........
3) Copy of your passport or id card.............
4) Your contact address.....................

Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction,All the
answers will be kept very confidential.

E-mail:filemessage8@gmail.com
Regards
Mr.Gilliard.Duke






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