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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: Sandra Nelson <service@snapfish.com>
Reply-To: sandra5nelson@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:55:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: May God Bless As You Do




FROM MRS SANDRA NELSON OF NETHERLANDS
PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT ON CHURCHES,ORPHANAGES AND WIDOWS
REPLY AT ALTERNATIVE MAIL sandra5nelson@yahoo.co.uk

Dearest one,

I am the above named person from Netherlands. I am married
to Dr.Franklyn Nelson who worked with canada Embassy in netherland for
nine years before he died in the year 2004.We were married for
eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that
lasted for only four days.

Before his death, we were both born again christians.When my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred
Thousand U.S.Dollars (US$10.5m) with OVERSEA SECURITY
FINANCE COMPANY IN LONDON Presently, this money is still with the
above mentioned finance company and the management just wrote me as
the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather
issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it on my
behalf if I can not come over.Again, I'm with my laptop in a
hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the
lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have
told me that I have only a few months to live.

It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity
organizations because relatives and friends haveplundered so much
of my wealth since my illness. I cannot live with the agony
ofentrusting this huge responsibility to any of them. Please,I beg
you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and the
interest accrued from the oversea security finance company in
london and distribute it accordingly.

I want a person that has God fearing, that will use this money on
churches,orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to
ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to
understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth.I took this
decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this
money.My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.
Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and
truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any
delayin your reply will give me room in searching for another
person for this same purpose. I will be happy to offer you 20%=20
from your effort to recover this money.

Hoping to hear from you soonest.

Yours Sister in Christ,

Mrs SANDRA NELSON




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Sandra says...

FROM MRS SANDRA NELSON OF NETHERLANDS
PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT ON CHURCHES,ORPHANAGES AND WIDOWS
REPLY AT ALTERNATIVE MAIL sandra5nelson@yahoo.co.uk

Dearest one,

I am the above named person from Netherlands. I am married
to Dr.Franklyn Nelson who worked with canada Embassy in netherland for
nine years before he died in the year 2004.We were married for
eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that
lasted for only four days.

Before his death, we were both born again christians.When my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred
Thousand U.S.Dollars (US$10.5m) with OVERSEA SECURITY
FINANCE COMPANY IN LONDON Presently, this money is still with the
above mentioned finance company and the management just wrote me as
the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather
issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it on my
behalf if I can not come over.Again, I'm with my laptop in a
hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the
lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have
told me that I have only a few months to live.

It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity
organizations because relatives and friends haveplundered so much
of my wealth since my illness. I cannot live with the agony
ofentrusting this huge responsibility to any of them. Please,I beg
you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and the
interest accrued from the oversea security finance company in
london and distribute it accordingly.

I want a person that has God fearing, that will use this money on
churches,orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to
ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to
understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth.I took this
decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this
money.My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.
Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and
truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any
delayin your reply will give me room in searching for another
person for this same purpose. I will be happy to offer you 20%=20
from your effort to recover this money.

Hoping to hear from you soonest.

Yours Sister in Christ,

Mrs SANDRA NELSON

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