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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: Khadem Abdulla <khademabdulla01@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:56:53 +0400
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?GOOD_NEWS!?= =?windows-1256?Q?.=FE?=

REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE.

Mr. Khadem Abdulla.

Greetings from Dubai.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Khadem Abdulla a personal account adviser/officer to a great late industrialist Mr.David, who has an account in a top bank here in Dubai. It has been five years now since he died, without a written or an oral will and to the best of my knowledge nobody has come for claims of his funds deposited and 45kg of gold.

However the fund remain dormant in the account, i will appreciate to work with you to have this fund released, since you have the same last name with him, I do want us to get the fund and also 45kg of gold will be released to you as a relative, so that both of us can share and invest into real estate.

Please respond urgently and I will tell you how we can deal with it.The amount deposited is ($4.450 million dollars) and also 45kg of gold asset can be released to you immediately.

If you accept to partner with me in this business deal, further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as I receive your return mail.

Hence I am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 50/50 as a partner.

Respectfully,

Regards

Khadem Abdulla.

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