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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: "Ahmed Yashire" <aftc@ftc.my>
Reply-To: yashireahmed@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:54:52 -0700
Subject: Request for joint venture

Hello,

I got your contact in the cause of my serious search for a reliable foreign partner through a profile in which convinced me of your honesty. However, I am Ahmed Yashire Abbas my father was a businessman and also one the leaders of Libyan United for Reconciliation and Democracy movement that fought against the Government in Libya African.

I confide in you hoping you will never betray me at last, My most required concern is for you to recognised me as a friend/partner while establishing a long lasting relationship for our future. Presently, I am in Europe with substantial quantity of diamonds and the sum of Twenty Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$20.2m) .These money and diamonds was realise by my father before his death when Revolutionary Movement (L.U.R.D) conquered one of the Diamond region in Libya, by then my father was the Chief in my region and the Director in charge of one of the oil site in Libya

The money and diamonds was kept under my father care for the purchase of arms, it was a situation of war so my father died and I consider it my chance and then move immediately to Europe where my late father deposited this diamonds and money with a holding company for save keeping.

My aim of contacting you is to assist me in three ways (1) to help me move this money and diamonds to your country (2) to help me secure prospective diamonds buyers (3) and to help me get a profitable business for investment any where in overseas all is base on your professional advice and acceptance to assist me.

Note that a substantial portion of this money would be compensated to you for all your assistance. Please, do not hesitate to reply immediately in order for us to know the next thing to do on how to move this money to your country through proper arrangement.

Finally, keep this with your utmost secrecy and confidentiality as you can understand my condition in here because i am into hiding as so many people knows my late father and may be after me for political reasons.

Thanks for your co-operation.
Best Regards.
Ahmed Yashire Abbas

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