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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: Justina Justina <justinajustina17@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:23:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello From Miss Justina Morgan


You may be surprised
to receive this letter from me since you do not
know me personally.I am miss Justina Morgan,the only child of Dr.George
Morgan,my families was murdered in the farm land crisis dispute in our
country Swaziland.I am writing from (Senegalaise) where i currently
based and Before the death of my father,he deposit the sum of (US$3.9M)
Three million,nine hundred thousand United States dollars in a Finance
Company.Maybe he for-saw the looming danger in the Swaziland.

This
money was initially meant to purchase new machines and chemicals for
the farms and also to establish a new farm  in the Kenya.The farm land
problem came when the government of Swaziland,introduced a new
Government decree/act that,affected a lot of Citizens and The
masses.This resulted to mob action
and killings by Swaziland crisis Veterans and some Lunatics in the
society, so to say.

In fact,a lot of people were killed in the
farm land reform act and I have consulted they finance company about my
father money also to transfer the money out of their custody to any of
my foreign partner abroad since I cannot handle the money

I know that you are a good person with good heart and I know that you
can help me out.

Please Email me and Let me know your tought toward this matter to enable
us proceed on it.

Regards,

Miss Justina Morgan

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