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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "Roger Kurzen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rogerkurzen04@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:03:54 +0200
Subject: Re:From Roger Kurzen
Good day,
I hope this email does not affect your religious belief and you do not see me as someone working in line
with the late Gaddafi and his family. I am a Privatbankier with one of the major banks here in Switzerland;
I want to use this opportunity to inform you that I had a very good business relationship with the Gaddafi’s
family and they were major transactions that I did for them as a management of this bank.
There is an amount of US$36Million on the name of Saif Al Arab Gaddafi (Late) to the best of my knowledge
this money came as a payback contract deal between my late client Saif Al Arab Gaddafi and a Russian
Firm on a multi-billion dollars oil project, no record ever existed concerning the money traceable by the
government because there is no documentation showing that we received money from the Russians firm.
I am willing to work with you to move this fund out of the bank where I work as an operational manager to
any account of your choice outside my country and you will be rewarded 30% of the total sum. I am in a
position to get this fund transfer to you in your country where I will come over to meet with you for us to
disburse the funds and go into investments.
I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter
extraordinarily confidential whatever your decision while await your prompt response.
Kind Regards,
Roger Kurzen
Telefon (direkt) +41 44 586 83 84
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