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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: Saheed Ali <musausman7721@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alisaheed794@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 13:36:45 +0400
Subject: Waiting For Your Urgent Reply..

Salaam,

I am Saheed Ali,My Nationality from Liberia,My father is an Ex-oil
Exporter and his into a crude oil business in our country, Is one of
the rich men in Liberia in our country and he died in car accident,And
I am his only son,And my father has three wife,And before he died in
hospital,He told me that he has kept some money for me in saved
keeping company before he pass away.

And he told me that is should use the money for any business that I
like to do before he died,And immediately my father died,My
stepmothers, they are after my father properties in our country,And
because of my father two wives, I moved out of my country to saved my
life from them,And the money is in safe keeping company, Which i will
like you to assist me to received the money in your country on behalf
and used it for investment together,In the area of any investment in
your country that you know he we fresh us a good profit at the end of
the day,And I can instruct the company to move the money down to you
in your country for the investment you will advise doing in your
country for you to stand as the owner of the investment in your
country,The amount of money is $U5.5M(Five Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars).

And I promise to give you 10% of the total money,For the
assistance,you will render to me to receive the money in your country
for the investment in your country and the sharing of the profit after
the Investment will be shared by 60-40.

And I will like you to be a trusted person to me,In your reply to me
send me your full details, Your full name and your Mobil number and
your full address,Your Occupation,Your Age,Your Nationality,So that I
can forward it to the company that the money was kept for saved
keeping,That you are my beneficiary to receive the money on my behalf
in your country.

Waiting for your urgent reply

Ma Salaam

Saheed Ali

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