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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: "Mr.Sirmad-Al-Bassi" <sirmadalirezasa@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mr.Sirmad-Al-Bassi" <mr.sirmad-el-bassi_alireza@barid.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:24:13 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Your urgent letter is needed immediately.

Dear Partner,

We want to transfer to overseas ($50.500, 000.00) Fifth Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the Bank of Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quietly.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be Approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign Passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or driver's license and foreign account because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the account is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign account. However, At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest reply.

I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me Down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am Contacting this business to, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.

I will have to provide all the relevant document that will be requested to indicate that you are the rightful beneficiary of this legacy and our bank will release the fund to you without any further delay, upon your consideration and acceptance of this offer, please send me the following information as stated below so we can proceed and get this fund transferred to your designated bank account immediately.

Bellow is the full requested information to make it work immediately.

(1) YOUR FULL NAME..........................
(2) YOUR AGE...........................
(3) MARITAL STATUS........................
(4) YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER........................
(5) YOUR FAX NUMBER........................
(6) YOUR COUNTRY.......................
(7) YOUR OCCUPATION............................
(8) SEX............................
(9) YOUR RELIGION...........................
(10)YOUR PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS...........................

NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION IS CONFIDENTIAL.

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

Bill and Exchange (Executive Director).

Best regard
Mr. Sir mad Al Bassi.

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