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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: s_abdul3@aol.de
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 00:15:02 -0500
Subject: PLEASE, CAN YOU BE OF ASSISTANT TO ME?


Good day,

I am Mr. Samad Abdul, a Lebanese

origin., I serve under the United

Nations
department of safety
and security (UNDSS) in Syria, I and

my second in command came across
some money that was parked in a

trunk box and the money is worth

over
$ 50 million,plus Gold Bars and what

looks like Diamond in one of

President Bashar al-Assads allies

house and we
have moved the money out to a

security and delivery office as a
medical equipment, but we are

looking for a trust worthy person

that
we can trust the above said money

with him or her for safe keeping
pending when we are going to finish

our contract or duty here in
Syria.

If you can be of a help do please

get back to me through this Email,

Address, samabdul841@gmail.com
, and
if you are not ready for the

assistance please and please do not

let
this be known to the world as this

may bring division among us in our
department. If my English is not

good please try to understand me and
be of kind assistance to us.
send to me these informations:

NAME IN FULL:...............
ADDRESS:...............
NATIONALITY:...........
AGE:..................
OCCUPATION:................
PHONE......................

Yours sincerely.
Samad Abdul


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