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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: Olivia Gama Sogolo <oliviagamas@live.com>
Reply-To: oliviasogolo@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:08:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Mrs. Olivia Gama Sogolo


Hello
Dear,

Permit
me to inform you of my desire to introduce to you into this humanitarians work.
I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please
consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not
known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information
because there are many such possibilities these days. I would like to introduce
myself as Mrs. Olivia Gama Sogolo, of Republic of Benin, widow to Late Dr.
Edward Tibos Sogolo (formal Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain. I
have been recently diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic. I am writing to you now
from my sick bed here in the hospital.

 There
is $8.5M (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars) my husband
has in an account with the BANK OF AFRICAN BENIN (BOA) of which I am
the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no
child, I decide to contact you so that I will pass the right of next of kin to
you. I will send to you the document that covers the fund in the Bank which you
will use to contact the bank and request for the re-transferring of the fund to
your own bank account. This is on the condition that you will take only 30% of
the fund for yourself, while you will use the remaining 70% to help the less
privileges people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my late
husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less
privilege people, If this condition is acceptable to you, you should
contact me immediately through my E-mail:oliviasogolo@hotmail.com  , and through the hospital telephone number
+229-98423429 Hospital Address: CENTRAL HOSPITAL BENIN, 124 bp, Midombo 
Cotonou - Benin Republic, Contact person Doctor Marc Nicholas. Please call the
Doctor and ask him of  Mrs. Olivia Gama Sogolo, let the doctor to know
that you want to speak with me on phone.

 Indicate
to me your full names with your contact address so that i will have the trust
to pass the right of next of kin to you. So as soon as i receive your full
names with your full contact address i will proceed to send to you all the
documents covering the fund, which you will send to the bank for the release of
the fund to you.

I cannot
predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your
account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described
above.

I look
forward to your immediate response,

Yours
Sincerely,

Mrs.
Olivia Gama Sogolo



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