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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: ruthj jawad <ruthj1_jawad@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:17:27 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS CODE: ALL IS WELL/RUTHJ/213)


Dear Pastor Robert Ised,

I have seen your mail and I know how you fill about all this, for you not to be confused please I advised you to take it easy with him and settle all this step by step, first find a way and obtain the two required documents which will empower to stand as the rightful beneficiary of the said funds and proceed on the delivering of the funds as I strongly believe that the moment you acquired the requested documents other things will be easy and simple.

Kindly contact the lawyer and negotiate on how to obtain the document which is holding the said funds to be delivered to you, I wont like this funds to remain in the security company any more as an elderly man and man of God you should know how to deal with people of the world and make things easy.

I hereby clear you that the payment for the two required documents are going to take care by you as now the beneficiary of the said fund, the lawyer is not in position to use his money to sponsor this transaction as it was written on my very first mail to you if you don’t mind go through the mail again.

Please handle this transaction with care and totally understanding and make sure that everything goes well, also always pray for me.

Regards,

Sister Ruth Jawalus.



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