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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "jlooooo22929@mail.mn" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jlooooo22929@mail.mn>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 14:15:58 +0100
Subject: Please are you interested?

 
Hello,
 
I am a Ghanaian lady living in Syria, actually I work as a waitress in African restaurant in Aleppo suburb where foreigners and some high government officials do come and eat African meals, until the protest which started the civil war erupted on 26th January 2011 and I left back to my country, Ghana,
during my stay in Syria I was dating an Air Force General named Mr. Abdullah Mahmud al-Khalidi, he was very kind to me and he was helping me in taking care of my 3 little children, as I lost my husband 2 years ago, as the civil war was progressing he asked me to fly with my 3 children back to Ghana because the situation is very bad for foreigners and he gave me 2 boxes on the day of our travel to deposit in a security house and told me that the boxes contains $10,000,000.00 each and the notes was stamped with Federal Reserve stamp on it,
I don't know where he actually got those money but I managed to sneak them into my country through the help of my cousin who is a top ranked officer in the airport custom here in Accra, and after I arrived safely and deposited it we planned he would defect to the opposition and join me here in Accra once the war is bad on the pro-government side so that we would clean the money and use it to settle for life in Dubai, UAE,  and during my last conversation with him, he was telling me that the war is bad and he is planning his defection seriously, and since then I have not heard from him,
I tried calling his number but it was switched off until December last year when a neighbor I contacted in Aleppo told me he was shot and killed by the Rebels, and I cried for him very well because he was a good and kind hearten man.
 
Therefore, few days ago I asked a banker here about such money and he told me that it should be a forestry remark as was bought by the Syrian central bank and should be cleaned by the central bank but because of the war, the general had access to the central bank and took it away, and he said no bank should accept now it until it's cleaned properly, and that I should buy a certain chemical and he would assist me clean off the stamp before it would be of usury, and I told him I can't afford the money to buy the chemical as I am just a restaurant worker and a Syrian war returnee with 3 children who has nothing and he told me to look for someone who can invest in the cleaning of the stamp on the notes,
then after that I give him percentage on the money, though I don't know anybody here in Ghana who I can tell this sensitive thing, I am very much afraid, that's the reason contacted you because I look into your profile and see you are a sincere person. Please as the banker said we only need to buy a chemical he called Automatic Stain Cleaner Powder (ASCP). The money for the chemical is very expensive for me to buy, that's why I am contacting you so that you can help me to purchase the chemical, and after the money is cleaned we will share it 45% 45% percent each and the banker who help us clean it will take 10% percent, the banker who will clean the notes lives here in Ghana.
Please if you agree I will ship the consignment 2 boxes to your home address so that the banker can come and clean the notes at your house, then I will come over to your country immediately for us to share our 45% 45% percent or if you will prefer to travel to Dubai or any other place then the delivery man from the security house will deliver them straight to you so that within 2 days the banker will arrive there and contact you to come and clean it in your hotel room then you will be giving me update once he finished, because keeping it here is of useless for me, I need someone who can invest to clean it, I don't mind how it would be done, as far as it's cleaned and I get my percentage then that person get his/her percent as well Ok.
 
Please if you are interested to assist me get back to me, so that we can discuss more about this business.
 
Thanks
 
Ms. Joyce.

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