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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: "Rifaat Al Assad" <investconsult@clarofree.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: investconsult67@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 07:16:29 -0500
Subject: GOOD DAY!!!! ( INVESTMENT PLAN)

Greetings,

I know you will be surprise to read my email, apart from being surprise
you may be skeptical to reply back to me because based on what is going
on in the internet world, one has to be very careful because a lot of
scam are out there to scam innocent citizen and this has made it very
difficult for people to believe anything that comes through the internet
but this is a different case. lf you willing to show me your honest and
trust i think i will be able to work with you. Am a Syrian citizen and
you should be rest assured that i cannot be involved in scam. I write
to request your co-operation in my desire to find a foreign partner
who will assist me in relocating and investing of the sum of
(US$10,200,0000 Dollars which is presently available in my bank and in
my possession.

My name is Rifaat Al Assad , a formal member of the inner caucus of the
regime in Syria though that was long ago I would like to share some
highly personal classified information about my personal experience. In
the hay days of the government, we were like gods but today all our
friends have rejected us that we are hiding in countries where we have
ran to for survival. It is good to know when to quit. Though, I would
like to hold back certain information for security reasons for now.
Because we don't know whether we will live or die, I want you to help me
manage inheritance I wish to leave for My children.i ran out of my
country because of the civil war, i feel i might die any time soon my
nephew the president want to kill us all if we do not support his
government. I am contacting you because of my children, i need you to
help me keep my funds and also invest for my children, the people I have
trusted failed me so badly. i do not know how long i can hang on.

Also, could you get back to me to enable us discuss in a more clarifying
manner to the best of your understanding. I must say that I'm very
uncomfortable sending this message to you without knowing truly if you
would misunderstand the importance of this and decides to go public. In
this regards, I will not hold back to say that the essence of this
message is strictly for mutual benefit between you and I and nothing
more. I will give you the details of what i want and the funds to be
transferred. I will like you to get back to me to enable me give you
details on this issue. I have the opportunity of making you the
beneficiary to his deposited funds with our bank. I have all the
details and required information to make you the beneficiary to the
funds. The modalities of sharing is 50/50 percent.

Get back to me for more details about the deal only if you are
interested to actualize this deal with me

Please email me back here..... investconsult67@gmail.com
Thanks,
Best Regards
Rifaat Al Assad.


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