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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Abdul Rahman Ibrahim <ibrahimrahman79@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 07:53:04 +0000
Subject: hi dear


Attn:
With due respect, my name is Abdul Rahman Ibrahim, hope you are doing well with your family, please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you I believe you are a highly respected personality,considering that fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database of your country.
Please pay attention to understand my reason of contacting you today through this email, my name is BARRISTER ABDUL RAHMAN IBRAHIM, A solicitor at law and attorney to MR PABLO DREYFUS, during an auditing in one of the leading banks here they discovered an abounded sum of $3.5m that belongs to my late client (MR PABLO DREYFUS FROM ARGENTINA) who died on June 2009 in a plane crash.

I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this huge sums of money left behind by my late client to the tune of $3.5m (Three million five hundred thousand us dollars) out from the bank to your own account, He executed contract through department of work and housing here and the mentioned money above is his money left in the bank before his death, meanwhile for your smoothness of this transaction, I will give you 25% of the total sum for your co-operation in this matter, if you know that you are interested and capable to handle this business transaction, let me know so that i apply for an OATH and send to you immediately for you o fill and send back for us to proceed.
I wait for your urgent reply.
Yours faithfully,Barr A.R Ibrahim.Attorney-at-Law.

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