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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: Jamal Habib <habib_habib46@yahoo.com>
Date: 17 Feb 2020 17:57:56 -0800
Subject:

My name is Mr. Jamal Habib senior Manager of reputable bank in Dubai-UAE. I am 55 years old man, marriedwith four children. I have a very urgent,confidential and profitable business for both of us Valued at Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United state Dollars. This fund is an excess of what my branch in which I am the senior manager made as profitlast year. I have already submitted an approved End of the Year 2019 report tomy Head Office and they will never know of this Excess. I have since then,placed this amount of $25.5M (Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred ThousandUnited state Dollars) on a SUSPENSE SECURITY without a beneficiary.  As a senior Manager ofthe bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled torequest for your assistance to receive this money as the beneficiary of the funds. If we could do this together, we shall share this fund 50/50 between us accordingly and this transaction is 100% risk free, as no-risk involved in this and this is going to be a direct transaction. All I need from you is to standas the original depositor of this fund.  If interested, please write back for more information, while I shall explain more in details as soonas I got a response from you if you are interested.

Thanks for your kindunderstanding,

awaiting your response!  

Best Regards,  

Mr. Jamal.

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