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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.M Akeem
Reply-To: <sgtma28@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:35:21 +0000
Subject: -//i'MSG/

Hello,

This concerns new development of great opportunity. I am one of Muammar Gaddafi`s loyalist who crossed over to Niger Republique. We have in our possession Gold and Cash in Euros and Dollars drawn from Central Bank of Libya, Sirte Branch, and are currently in some parts of West African States through Niger Republic. We later trans-loaded to Togo through their Northern border with Niger Republique but was told by their government to leave the country, so we trans-loaded the treasures to Benin Republique and went back to our provided quarters in Niger Republique.

The News; http://www.islam.ru/en/content/news/libyan-convoy-gold-cash-crossed-niger-ntc

The Niger Government are preventing us from making further move to any other countries as we may face the World court any time but our main objectives is to secure our treasures first for the sustenance of our families. 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 tans-loading the treasures to Benin. We need your cooperation for safe keeping these treasures. Our appointed lawyer in Benin will register some quantities of these treasures in your name on neutral grounds without linking us to it. You will take 30% for safe keeping them, 10% is set aside for any expense that may occur, and will later release 60% of the quantities trusted in your hands to our families in the future. We cannot bank them by ourselves in any country on our names for security reasons as to avoid seizure and confiscation by those that want to try us in their Law Court.

To this end, we need someone of good reputation and that can be trusted. I have gone through your profile and believed you could be of help in a transaction of this nature considering the magnitude of funds involved as we are tightly avoiding spies. We are having the help of a trusted lawyer in Benin and he will help you make legal documents to safe keep the treasures on your names without breaching the law. There is no risk attached to or involved in this transaction.

We are in a safe location watching what could be our fate as the day advances. I hope to hear from you as soon as possible in order to link you up with our lawyer in Benin Republique so that he can start processing the treasures for safe keeping with you.

Kind regards,

Sgt.M. Akeem

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