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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. Abas Omer." <ayacubu33@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:27:26 -0400
Subject: Requesting your help for dislodgement of USD$35 Million and
transfer to your Country.



Dear friend.
Hopefully this email will reach you in sound health and mind.


Thank you in advance for taking time out of your busy day to read and consider my proposal. My message may come to you as a surprise, however it is my honest desire to share a mutual business relationship with you for which I am contacting you today. My name is Mr. Abas Omer, 44 years of age. I am security officer at the 'SEMAFO Burkina Faso' (Gold Mining and Security Company) located in Ouagadougou. I presume it is apparently by virtue of its nature I had turned up your profile from Burkina Chambers of Commerce, I promptly decided to contact you believing that by the grace of God/Allah you are the right partner for executing this business opportunity I am about to disclosed to you through this email.


I joined the named establishment since 1991 and I have been working with the Company for many years. Within this period I watched with calculated precision how African leaders under government functionaries has been using Security Company's to move huge amount of fund "USD, Pound Sterling, French France", to their partners in foreign Countries. They will normally bring in Consignments of cash currency, gold, diamond, precious stones; they will secretly declare the contents as family treasures or' just private documents etc. Amongst the list of important personnel we received in in past years, there are individual such as late General SANI ABACHA of Nigeria; Mobutu SESE SEKO of Zaire, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya; (all dead of course). We have numbers of individual still alive who owns several Consignments of cash deposit with numbers of Security Company's including the one where I am working; I should not mention those names for personal security reasons.


Major Subject of Contention:
I want to disclose to you that relatives and beneficiaries of dead persons who own consignments and packages in custody of SEMAFO Security Company are not aware of such deposit. We have numbers of Consignment that are unclaimed for as much as a period of 6 to 10 years, and nobody will ever come for the claims. In most cases the documents of such deposits are never available to relations of the deceased depositor except the original depositor and the Company; the interesting thing now is that there is a special deposits Consignment were the depositors is dead. On records, only a few packages belonging to dead people has been claimed in the past 3 years, more than as ever before. There is one Consignment box which belongs to the late Muammar GADDAFI deposited with number codes and the Consignment is unclaimed since after his death. I am certain the family members are not aware of this deposit; also he did not declare a next of kin on papers/record. The late Libyan leader made this deposit in our Secret Security vaults under Reference Code Number: Z-3201-MMMGGF/SFT/BF/2009 long before his assassination in 2011.


The Consignment lodgments is registered in codes; the amount contain inside this consignment is US$35 Million Thirty Five Million United States Dollars. This deposit was made by Mr. Gaddafi himself when he visited Burkina Faso in year 2009 and I can make all necessary arrangement for you to come down here to Burkina Faso for claiming of Consignment with Reference N°: Z-3201-MMMGGF/SFT/BF/2009. I am giving you the above information in confidence as I trust you are a man of integrity and high esteem; I have fully and carefully mapped-out a perfect strategic plan to expedite the claim and shipping of the Consignment from here to your Country; the claim can be successfully realized legitimately without a problem. Therefore if you can come to Burkina Faso to carry out the operation to withdraw said Consignment, please inform me so that I would proceed to make arrangement for your visit; we will arrange to ship Consignment to your Country through any international Courier delivery service and will be delivered to you safe and secured.


I will supply you all necessary information to claim the Consignment from the SEMAFO Security Company, the authority will only demand from you the deposit documents which I will provide you when I am sure you want to do this deal with me. Once codes are confirm as correct by responsible authority you will be invited for collection of the Consignment or to deliver the Consignment to you by Freight Courier Service to your address. Nobody should know I gave you information to claim the Consignment; upon successful conclusion of this deal, once consignment is in your custody I will meet you in your Country for sharing the fund which should be 50% for you and 50% for me, while every expenses incur in the operation will be burn by both parties. I want to assure you the transaction is 100% risk free, take note that Mr. Muammar GADDAFI is been long dead and nobody will ever come to claim the Consignments. I will give you further directive if you are interested in this deal and willing to help, Kindly send me your reply if you are interested and tell me how soon you can arrange to come to my Country Burkina Faso. If you have any question I will be oblige to provide you the answers and assistance in realizing this deal. I look forward to a healthy business relationship with you. Kindly contact me for further directives on my private e-mail address which is appended here… (abasomer541@gmail.com).


Thank you for anticipated assistance.
Sincerely,
Mr. Abas Omer.










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