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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Abdullah Abdulazeem" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <abdullahabdulazeem6@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:12:26 -0700
Subject: Accounting department at Saudi Aramco (Your attention is needed)sm

Dear Sir
 
My name is Abdullah Abdulazeem and I work in the accounting department at Saudi Aramco, the national oil company here in Saudi Arabia. I am contacting you today because I have been thinking about an opportunity that has been before me for several years now which I have decided to seize once and for all. Here is my plan:
 
1. To contact a person who owns a company outside of Saudi Arabia that I feel I can trust.
 
2. That person will use their company to submit an invoice for products or services that they normally provide without actually providing them.
 
3. The invoice will be for an order for several millions of dollars, which I will approve and sign off on for payment.
 
4. Once approved a payment order will be released by my accounting department to our Ministry of Finance here and wire instructions will then be issued to our government's US dollar reserve bank in New York USA for release of funds to you. There are literally billions of dollars in our US dollar reserve accounts and I oversee the invoices for Aramco's accounts payable.
 
5. Once the payment has been released to you I will then make sure the file goes missing on our end so that there can be no investigation into the file at any time in the future. This protects you and protects me fully because lost or deleted files cannot be investigated.   
 
Here is my proposal:
 
1. Using your company you are to act as a supplier to Aramco for your products or services which you already now sell.
 
2. I will send you all the necessary forms to fill out, which we will backdate, that the real suppliers are given and tell you how to fill them out.
 
3. For participating in this plan you will take 40% of the money that we decide to syphon out of the government coffers. I suggest we keep it to about US$10 to 12 million because it will be a drop in the bucket, and will go completely unnoticed.
 
4. Once you receive the money, I will then give you instructions as to where to send my 60% share. This will all be a matter of paperwork so there will be no expenses involved.
 
If you are interested in my above proposal please respond to this email. I have written to you from my personal email to start
 
but I will give you all my Aramco contact information so that you can verify that I am real, once I feel comfortable with our communications.
 
If you are not interested please disregard this email and forget I ever wrote to you.
 
Hoping to hear from you.
 
Abdullah
 
 

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