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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: "Mr. G Seers." <mrgseers@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:58:39 +0200
Subject: Project plan Layout.


Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Graham Seers, a financial adviser to the former Libyan leader Late
Col. Muammar Gaddafi. I am sending you this email in respect of my client’s
funds that were deposited in a reputable financial institute here in South
Africa and my client thought the said funds had been seized before he died.
Now the Government is trying to liquidate all late Gaddafi’s funds in the
Southern Region.

I would need your assistance to move the funds out of South Africa to your
country based on the fact that all my activities are presently monitored
and I cannot make any move to transfer the funds out on my own without the
help of foreign beneficiary, hence I seek your assistance. I will send more
information to you if you accept to assist me. If you read the news, you
will see that the US government has already seized $200 Billion dollars of
my late client’s wealth in the United State of America and the British did
the same too. So therefore, I am trying to make sure they don’t find the
$45 Million that is deposited in South Africa through my help.

This is why I am trying to move the funds as soon as possible because
presently I have been questioned by the South African Government regarding
the fund if there is any beneficiary attached to the fund and I said yes,
that is why you need to come in to stand as the beneficiary, and I will
make sure that I give all the backup documents.

I want you to know that I have a past and history to protect and I actually
came across your contact information while using a soft-ware called the
internet web detective. Having studied a bit of your profile as displayed
by the web detective I came to the conclusion that you will be a very
trustworthy and reliable partner since you have had no criminal records in
the past or present, hence I contacted you because I know you are capable
to handle this project and assist me to receive these funds. As soon as I
receive your email I will send you more information and also contact the
financial institute here to contact them and make further claims of these
funds to your possession and hold it till I come over to your country for
investment purposes.

But please I want you to know that I am working with you with full trust
and honesty on this because the new Government of Libya is seriously
looking for all funds under my late client’s name.

The total fund is $45 Million and you shall have 30% of the total amount
for assisting me in making this transfer a successful one. I also want you
to know that there is no legal implication of any kind or any unforeseen
one and it is 100% risk free and it is compulsory you keep every detail in
this message confidential and secretive between us and the bank official
that will assist us. I also want you to know that none of my client’s
relatives know about these funds and everyone thought that the funds had
been seized. As soon as we have the change ownership of the fund done to
your name then we can transfer the funds out to your designated account in
your country or elsewhere in the world.

Please, kindly get back to me on my email address below to enable me to
forward you more information. We would need a mutual agreement which we
will sign to that effect immediately. Please, as a result of the present
issue in Libya, I would want you to keep this confidential because if the
Government finds out about the funds, it would be confiscated. The transfer
is 100% risk free as all the paperwork that would prove the legitimacy of
the funds when it is transferred into your account, would be made available
by the bank including the origin of funds that would be issued as a
contract payment.

Please contact me here only for security reasons: gseers101@gmail.com

Sincerely yours,

GRAHAM SEERS.

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