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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: "Ms. Theresa Victoria" <theresa@mstheresavictoria2.com>
Reply-To: <mstheresavictoria@propertybuyeragents.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:27:35 -0700
Subject: Re: Please Get Back To Me As Soon As Possible,

Dearest Friend,

Greetings to you, I want you to be my beneficiary if God will in his infinite
mercies touch your heart to handle this project the way I promised,
I will be so much glad; I am reaching you from a private hospital.
I am an orphan and a single woman originated from Asia.
I have lived in United Kingdom for over 20 years doing my Real Estate
business, I have been suffering from a long time cancer of the breast and
became deaf after series of injections that affected my ear drum.

Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing
treatment for cancer. Since I lost my organ of hearing and my doctors wrote to
me on a paper that I have only few months to live, It is my last wish to see that
the $1,550,000.00 Million USD I have in the bank should be distributed each
year among the charity organizations, the poor and the motherless babies home
where I came from, please you have to use this money accordingly. Give me this
information if I can trust you and I will write to the hospital attorney to prepare the
legal document on your name as my beneficiary.

Full Name..............
Age/Sex................
Contact phone number...
Address...........
Occupation.....
Marital status...
Country...........

Send me this information and with the subject to your response I will write to the
hospital Attorney to draft an agreement to seal up this fund in your name and you
can also deal with the bank directly if you wish. Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as I stated herein. Please you must treat this as personal matter as God
will bless you for helping the charities. Hoping to hear from you soon.

Sincerely yours,
Ms. Theresa Victoria.
St Mark's Hospital,UK.

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