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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: "Mrs, Fatima Hussein Ahmed" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info58997@daum.net>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 17:07:37 +0100
Subject: Hello



Hello,

Thank you for your response. I am not living in your country presently. Note, I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary and that was why I went to a secured site where I can be sure that you are for real. I believe I can trust you. I will be glad to ask for your permission to work with you as my business partner.


I am Fatima Hussein Ahmed, a Syrian woman. I desire to relocate to your country due to the prolonged civil unrest/war in Syria, as well as the daily life threatening attacks by ISIS terrorist group. I have already lost my family, my husband and daughter to the cold hands of death during an attack targeted at our home on October 23, 2017, to end our family. I and my son was not around during the cross fire. we were at the hospital for check up when they attacked our home killing my beloved husband and my daughter and setting the house ablaze. I am in tears writing you this mail. He (my late husband) was a very successful contractor in the oil city of Syria, and was privately dealing on gold dust and bars before his untimely death. Expectedly, he left behind some reasonable amount of money, which I desire to invest in the Real Estate sector and other profitable sectors in your country.

As you may or may not know, the sanctions imposed have made it nearly impossible to successfully operate any type of investment here in Syria or to even transfer money from here to other parts of the world. For this reason, I am contacting you in great confidence with the hope that you could help me get this money into your country for investment purposes.

Please I would like to know how convenient it might be for you to assist me in this way. The entire capital at my disposal is $7,500,000.00 Seven Million and Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars Only. I secretly locked up the money in a trunk box and deposited it with the Red Cross here in Damascus Syria. My sincere intention in writing you is to plead with you to kindly accept the money box. This is because we cannot do any bank transfers from here following the war. These are the major issues of concern to me now. I will give you 30% of the total money as your benefit for helping me.

I have to take this chance because I have no other alternative but to trust somebody. I cannot risk my life here to avoid an end to my family lineage. As a woman since my husband and daughter is dead, all I have is my only son. He deserves a decent life since I want him to grow up in a peaceful environment. I will relocate to your country with my son and invest the money in accordance with law, your advice and support. We can work together and achieve successful goal.

I anticipate your positive response and on receipt of your information I will provide you with further details. Get back to me with the following information below for us to proceed.

Your full name_______________
Your full address__________________
Your direct telephone number_______________
Age___________________________
Occupation____________________
Nearest Airport________________________


Yours faithfully,
Mrs, Fatima Hussein Ahmed

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