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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: JAMEL BOURI <abukuse10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jsalma.b17@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:27:34 +0000
Subject: FROM JAMEL BOURI.

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Our Greetings to you,
Good Day and God bless you as I introduce myself to you with all faith
and hope you will understand us and not to betray us or let us down at
the end.

My name is JAMEL and my sister's name is SALIMA, We are the children
of late Mr. Wahbi Bouri, I am 19 Years old, our father died years ago
in our country home town BENGHAZI, LIBYA, He was into legal CRUDE OIL
and GOLD Saleing which was under his position during Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi regime , and he has succeeded in saving (US$15,000,000.00)
Fifteen Million United States Dollars during his Business on legal
Crude Oil and Gold Saleing during Muammar Gaddafi regime, Because of
uprising civil war in LIBYA our father travelled to Republic of Cote
d'Ivoire to safe his money for security reasons, and When our father
returned to our country LIBYA Unfortunately he dead, the rebels
assassinated him, kills him and burnt our house into ashes and I will
not want this money to be kept like that without any investment
purpose please we are contacting you with full trust to assist and
help us to transfer this money out from here to your country for
investment purpose hoping that you will not let us down.

After the death of our father, our mother took us to Abidjan Cote
d’Ivoire the country our late father deposited his money and here we
are right now in refugee camp and our mother died here in Abidjan Cote
d’Ivoire in a private hospital because of the injuries she sustained
during the civil war in our country LIBYA, Now we are living without
help in strange country without parents at our tender ages.

Libya isn't safe and many governments are advising their citizens
against traveling to Libya because of a lot of conflicts following the
bloody war to overthrow the Gadaffi regime. Our country is dangerous
and everybody currently in Libya is making plans to leave as soon as
the opportunity comes.

Before our mother's death she advice us to pray and look for someone
who is trust worthy to help and assist us to stand as our late
father’s foreign business partner and beneficiary to transfer and
receive this money into his care and invest the money in a profitable
business in he or her country.

According to our late mother’s advice, we are ready and willing to
give you 25% percent of the total money US$15,000,000 million once the
bank transferred the money into your account.

Our mother gave us the documents of the money, she told us that our
late father reached an agreement with the bank that this money is for
onward transfer to a foreign account to any of his foreign business
partner and beneficiary but our late father did not give or introduce
any name to the bank as his foreign business partner, that is why we
are contacting you to help us to stand as our late father’s foreign
business partner and beneficiary to enables the bank to transfer this
money US$15,000,000 million into your account for investment purpose
, Our mother told us that this is the reason we came to this country
Cote d’Ivoire, My mother died after words, May her spirit rest in
perfect peace.

We are interested in any profitable business which you consider very
good in your country or abroad to invest this money.

Please reply to us urgently before we look for another person, because
you are the first person we are contacting and also, send your phone
number as soon as possible for easier communication.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help us as your own person?
2. Can we completely trust you?
3. Hope my percentage offer is good accepted by you?

Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to us as soon as possible.

Many Thanks
JAMEL and SALIMA BOURI.

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