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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: Yacouba Sawadogo <tessy.kanazoe226@gmail.com>
Reply-To: yacusawao@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 10:49:02 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear,


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Hello Dear,

I'm deeply sorry to berg into your privacy as we haven't met before, I am
very happy to contact you for this business transaction. As a matter of
fact, I will be very brief since I'm in urgent need of a trust person to
help move out a valuable funds deposit by later Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi generated from oil and gas that was sold to Turkey government years
back into a foreign bank account which will later be used for any
profitable joint investment between me and you, as a civil servant i cannot
do this alone, The Libya’s sovereign wealth fund said five EU countries
paid out money from frozen accounts in Europe that once belonged to Muammar
Qaddafi despite international sanctions, according to POLITICO. But no one
are aware of this Total Amount is $24.5 Million us Dollars that currently
available under my care and placed in an ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT without a
beneficiary, it will be of advantage for me to solicit for a foreigner on
my behalf since the funds origin is from a genuine source. Total Amount is
$24.5 Million us Dollars.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/11/18/Where-are-Libya-s-billions-under-Qaddafi-abroad-and-who-benefits-from-them-

https://www.politico.eu/article/muammar-gaddafi-frozen-funds-belgium-unknown-beneficiaries/

For more details kindly indicate your willingness by responding via my
private email id below ( yacusawao@gmail.com )

Best regards,
Mr.Sawadog Yacouba

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