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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: "jokgrounds" <unsyria@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: "jokgrounds" <jokgrounds@gmail.com>
Date: 13 Mar 2018 01:57:01 +0300
Subject: newsletter dated 01-56-59


Hello dear, How are you and your family today, I pray you are all safe and good? I am contacting you in great confidence, hoping that you are a very reliable and trustworthy person, and therefore, would be helpful to me.
I am contacting you , due to the the ongoing civil unrest/war in my country Syria, as well as the daily life threatening attacks by ISIS terrorist group, and the Assad military. I've already lost my husband and my son to the ongoing war, and presently my life is in danger, in the hands of Assad military and ISIS terrorist group. As a result of this, it will be important for me to reveal to you that I have in my possession, the sum of $ 6.8m dollars, which I discovered in my husband's save ground. My late husband, Mizrahi Wafiq, was a very successful contractor in Kuwaiti Oil city, and was privately dealing on gold dust and bars, before his untimely death.The ongoing civil unrest in my country Syria have changed my future, and if we come to a concrete agreement, i will send the money to you for safe keeping, till I make my way and come to meet you in your country, very soon. Please help me to achieve this, and start a new life in your country.
As you may know, or may not know, the monetary sanctions imposed on Syria, and the ongoing war have made it nearly impossible to successfully operate any type of investment here in Syria, or to even transfer money from here to other parts of the world. For this reason, I am contacting you in great confidence, with the hope that you could help me, and get this money into your country, for investment purposes: I decided to find someone who is real, and not imaginary, and that is why I went to this secured site, where I can be sure, that the person is real, and not imaginary. I believe I can trust you? I will give you 10% of the total money (6.8 million dollars) for your assistance, as well buy your vehicle. I hope, I'm fair with the offer? Right now, I am very careful, with the way I communicate, so as to reduce any kind of risk, until this money is finally in your custody. Where I am now, we can only communicate through the Red Cross communication facilities, which only permit me to send emails, and I can not make phone calls now, because there is no network in our area, since it was blocked by the government.
Please, if you are interested in helping me, I will give you the complete details you need, for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I have a good means of sending the money out of Syria, to your country, with the help of a red cross jet, that brings relief materials from Europe.
Please, you are in a position, to help me start a new life, and I would owe you my life, if you help me. I wait for your fast response, so i can give you further details, Please contact me with this my personel email:(sarahaleep@hotmail.com) upon hearing from you.
Sincerely yoursSARAH ALEEP

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