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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: =?utf-8?q?MR=2EHUSSON_MOHAMMED?= <mrhusson.mohamm@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:11:35 +0200
Subject: =?utf-8?q?From_The_Desk_of=3AMr=2EHusson_Mohammed=2C?=

From The Desk of:Mr.Husson Mohammed,
Audits & Accountant Manager
African Development Bank (A.D.B)



Attention: Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Husson Mohammed, Working at African Development Bank (ADB) as the Manager of Auditing & Accountant Department. During our last banking Audits we discovered an abandoned account belongs to one of our Deceased Customer, Late Dr. Walid Ahmed Juffali, Citizen of Saudi Arabia and Billionaire Saudi businessman. He was the chairman of E. A. Juffali and Brothers, one of Saudi Arabia's largest companies.

Meanwhile, before I contacted you I have done personal investigation in locating any of his relatives who knows about the account, but I came out unsuccessful. I am writing to request your assistance in
transferring the sum of $10.500.000.00 (Ten million, Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars) into your account.

After my further investigation, I discovered that Late Dr. Walid Ahmed Juffali died without any Next of Kin/ Relatives in his documents file here and because of the static of this fund, I decided to contact you
to act as his Foreign Business Partner so that my bank will accord you the recognition and have the fund transfer into your account.

We will provide the entire relevant document that will be requested to indicate that you are the rightful Business Partner of this legacy and my bank will release the fund to you without any further delay, upon
your consideration and acceptance of this offer. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% for me and my colleagues, while 30% of the fund will be for you.

I am assuring you that this transfer is 100% risk free on both sides hence you are going to follow my instruction till the fund transferred to your account. More details information will be forwarded to you to
breakdown explaining comprehensively what require of you.

I am expecting to read from you soon.
Best Regards
Mr.Husson Mohammed,
Audits & Accounts Manager.

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