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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: "Fatima Khalid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ffatimakhaliddd@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 00:11:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Treat Urgently Please !

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
Please permit a few minutes of your time, am the wife of the former Sudanese leader, Omar al-Bashir, my name is Fatima Khalid, am sure you would be surprise reading from me as we have not met before. Since the recent removal of my husband from office by the military, my family has been handicapped, threatened on daily basis, and
perpetually engulfed in fear. We can’t wait to escape from our hide out before being traced and killed by the opposition leaders.
 
The actions, threats and potential revenge of the oppositions on my family may seem reasonable and justified, especially when considers the physical cash sum recovered from my husband. The same cash I had been pleading with him to inject back into the country’s system for development, infrastructures and poverty alleviation. It would have been nice that in the verge of their anger, that the oppositions also took out time to grant my children and I some audience, at least to hear our own side of the story before apportioning blames and targeting our lives secretly.
 
Following the tension and threat to life, my children and I decided to manage to escape to a Neighboring country, from where we hope to connect to someone reliable, someone kind hearted, someone who can feel and understand our predicaments, perhaps someone like you,someone who can save our lives by accepting to help handle some little fortune in cash, that I managed to retrieve from my husband and hid somewhere out of Africa, before this problem started.
 
As a potential partner, all necessary legal documents would be changed to your name, to enable the release of the funds to you by the financial Company where the fund is kept. Upon release, I would appreciate that half of the money is given to charity as our little contribution to the society, while the other half goes into any
lucrative business of your choice, and to completely be managed by you as my family is not business inclined.
 
We would seriously appreciate that you help us with traveling and residential permit in your country on receiving the funds, as I consider rewarding your assistance with 20% of the remaining half.
 
I will discuss the exact amount and my hiding place on receiving your response.
 
Thanks.
 
Fatima Khalid

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