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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: "SAADIYAT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr_gwdempsternbsa@live.co.za>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:22:58 -0500
Subject: PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL

SALLAM
Hello, I am a Muslim woman; and I strongly believe that strangers can
be angels,
all I need from you is honesty, I cannot lie to any one because it is
against my
religion. I swear with the name of Allah the almighty that what am telling you
is the truth and nothing but the truth, and please for my own security keep
these matter to yourself. My names are Abda Hassan Muhammad a wife to one of
Gadaffi loyalist, I am writing you this email is because the trouble
is too much
for me and my kids, I was hit long ago by the bomb sent by Gadaffi Loyalist or
NATO forces, I am hospitalized.
Please no phone conversation because I am being monitored, so I found Mr. Buba
Garry. He is a well respected man of God and has a good job as cook in a five
start hotel in (Tripoli) Libya, because of the trouble before the death of
Gadaffi, he moved for his safety to South Africa, another African Country. I
have 7 ATM cards, 3 are master while 4 are visa, we use them anytime we go
abroad America Europe Asia, and in each of the card I have over Two million
dollars in each of them. Presently it cannot be used here for we are being
monitored and traced. Please I want to entrust this into your care because I
don't know if we will come out of this trouble.
With the help of Mr. Buba Garry I have sent out all my ATM cards out of Libya
with him. It was packed sealed inside a 24 Karat Custom made Gold wall clock, a
birthday gift from my husband during my 45th birthday in December 2008 and it
weighs 3.5kg.Presently the package is with Mr. Buba, I gave him the gold wall
clock to take with him and keep it until I contact him for it, I told him how
precious the gift was to me, he is not aware of the contents inside. I want to
send the wall clock to you, when you receive them you open up the clock and you
will find 7 ATM cards, confirm to me via email, then I will send you the pin
code for each of them as soon as you have confirmed to me that you
have received
the package. You can withdraw equivalent of $2,500 dollars from each of the
cards from any ATM machine.
Everyday you can remove total of $17,500 with all the cards and keep $7,500 for
yourself each day, I am not greedy, if you can assist me in doing
this, then why
won’t I share with you? I will send you a new account where you will be paying
in $10,000 dollars daily for me; the point is I have to remove all the funds
from all my cards because since Gadaffi is dead, the banking system might be
changed/tampered. Please nobody Knows about what I have just told you even Mr.
Buba believes it’s just a gold clock. And he is waiting for my orders to send
the package to
wherever I instruct him to. If you can handle this for me, I will be so happy
and make sure you will never forget me in life. Do get back to me so I
will know
if he will be contacting you or you to contact him.
SAADIYAT

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