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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: "Sgt. Muhammed" <dugger22@outlook.com>
Reply-To: sergentmuhammed@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:55:27 +0400
Subject: I need your urgent reply


Dear Friend, This concern a certain new development of great opportunity, I=
am one of the Muammar Gaddafi`s loyalist who crossed over to Niger Republi=
que, we have in our possessions Gold and Cash in Euros and Dollars drawn fr=
om Central Bank of Libya, Sirte Branch , and were currently in some parts o=
f West African States through Niger Republic, we later transloads to throug=
h their Northern border with Niger Republique but was told by the governmen=
t to leave their country, so we transloaded the treasures to Benin Republiq=
ue and went back to our provided quarters in Niger Republique. The News; ht=
tp://uk.news.yahoo.com/libyan-convoy-gold-cash-crossed-niger-ntc-093448938.=
html The Niger Government were preventing us from making further move to an=
y other countries as we may face the World court any time but our main obje=
ctives is to secure our treasures first for the sustainment of our familes,=
we have thousands of killos of 24 karat,pure Gold in bars and Dust and Suit=
case of funds in Euros and Dollars. The cash are in crates of Millions. We=
have succeeded in tansloading the treasures to Benin ,we need your coopera=
tion in this matter for safe keeping these treasures, our appointed lawyer =
in Benin will register some quantities of these treasure in your name on ne=
utral grounds without linking to us. you will take 40% for safe keeping the=
m and will later release 60% of the quantities trusted in your hands to our=
families in the future, we can not bank them by ourselves in any country o=
n our names for security reasons as to avoid seizure and confiscation by th=
ose to want to try us in their Law Court. We don`t need any how person, I h=
ave gone through your profile and noticed that you are the type of person n=
eeded to carry out transactions of this magnitude as we are tightly avoidin=
g spies. We are having the help of a trusted lawyer in Benin and he will he=
lp you make legal documents to safe keep the treasures on your names withou=
t breaching the law whatsoever, There is no risk attached or involve to thi=
s transaction, we are in a safe location watching what could be of our fate=
as the day advances. I will need to hear from you as soon as possible in o=
rder to link you up with our lawyer in Benin Republique so that he can star=
t processing the treasures safe keeping with you. My email address is: serg=
entmuhammed@gmail.com Sgnt.Muhamed Akeem.

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