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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: Ibrahim Ali <alii87570@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 22:51:55 -0700
Subject: FROM Ibrahim Ali

Dear

It's really nice to come across your e-mail contact from International
Business Directory, then I decided to contact you hoping that meeting
you here will be a good step for a beautiful future business
relationship and Partnership under your management.

I am Ibrahim Ali, account officer to Dr. Abdullah Al-Thinni, from
LIBYA; he was the Former Minister of Defense and Prime Minister of
Libya. He resigned as Prime Minister on 11 August 2015 after escaped
an assassination attempt by gunmen, after his resignation he went to
exile for security reasons.

You can read more here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/26/africa/libyan-prime-minister-assassination-attempt/index.html

Furthermore, due to the problems in our country Libya, I find it
necessary to diversify the investments outside our country to
safeguard against the funds. Meanwhile, I am contacting you to seek
for your assistant in transferring the deposited fund amounting Seven
Million Seven Hundred Thousand Euros Only (€7,700,000.00) which I am
planning to invest under your management in your country, pending when
I come over after you have confirmed the fund under your custody.

For me, I have the following investment plan for your consideration;

(1) Real Estate Business, (2) Travel & Tourism, (3) Hotel Management.

Please if you have another profitable business plan I may be
interested to invest in your country, kindly get back to me for us to
discuss on how to release the investment fund to you for onward
investment purpose.

I wait to hear from you for more details.
Yours Sincerely,
Ibrahim Ali

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