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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: Aicha Salem <aicha@primacom.net>
Reply-To: <aichasalem64@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 01:01:24 -0800
Subject: Can you be trusted

Friend in God.

Please use this money for the Churches/Islamic and Less Privileged in
the world.

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God,in my search for a
reliable and God

fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and pains
taking efforts via

searching i made on the internet on my bed side with my laptop. I
have decided to seek

your help in carrying out my last wishes.My name is Mrs. Aicha Salem,
I'm a 64 years old

woman and my Country is Libya,I was a merchant and owned two
businesses in Dubai, and Spain

I was also married with two children.

My husband and two children where involved in a car crash in the
Dec,25th 2010 view this

website.http://www.cnn.com/Lybia.crash/index.html Before this
happened,my business and

concern for making money was all I care for,I never really cared about
other values in

life.

But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist
helpless families,I

have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless,I have also donated
some money for

humanitarian needs,only recently I saw on television the colossal loss
of properties and

livelihood people in Philippines, Canberra, Australia Indonesia Mali
through fire and water

flood including civil war.

I was moved with great pity and compassion that I decided to make this
contribution on

assisting people over there or any part of the world like Asia/ Europe
and South America

that might still need any financial help,I have (US,12.5 Million)
Twelve Million Five

Hundred Thousand United States Dollars in a long-term deposit in a
bank, Presently, I'm in

a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for O esophagi Cancer
at International

Memorial Hospital.

I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I
have only few weeks

to live,It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of
the fire outbreak in

Australia,Philippines and other charity organization in the World like
i said,i have

enclosed for you the Current Photograph I took below in the hospital,
Because relatives and

friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness,I cannot
live with the agony

entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them again.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and
distributes it

accordingly Use your judgment to distribute the money to the poor and
needy, and keep 20% of

it to yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you receive the
money for any expenses

you made during the process of collecting/claiming the Fund on my
behalf. Please If you are

willing to help,please reply as soon as possible, again I will allow
you to communicate with

the Bank directly upon the receipt of your reply because I want this
project to be completed

before the end of this month before I will die according to the
Doctors report. Also attach

to me in your return mail your personal details for familiarity,May the
good Lord bless

you and your family.

1.Your Full Names
2.Your Age/ Sex
3.Your Marital Status
4.Your Occupation
5.Your Mobile Numbers/Fax
6.Your International Passport/Working ID/Driving Lenience.

Please,reply to my Private Email: aichasalem64@gmail.com

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