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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: Pastor Mateo Guiseppe <gen.mariocleff@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mateo.guiseppe@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:43:55 +0100
Subject: May God Bless you abundantly (Urgent response)


Dear Friend ,

I am Pastor Mateo Guiseppe, i saw your profile while surfing the
internet today. I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of
approach to establish a relationship of trust but please bear with me as
you will soon realize the need for my action.
Concerning the thing that i want to talk to you about,it is about a girl
called Anita. She is an immigrant here in Spain,originally from Libya. Her
parents died in the revolution war fought in Libya in 2011. Her father was
very rich but has only one daughter which is Anita. According to the
tradition from where she came from in Libya ,a woman does not inherit
properties left behind by her parents.
This same tradition applies in almost all the African countries,the
tradition which states that a girl cannot inherit the wealth of her father
only the male child can and Anita´s late parents had no son.

Her uncles now took possession of all her late father and pushed her out on
the streets. She managed to leave Libya and arrived in Spain where she seek
asylum. She is now with me in a Pentecostal church here in Madrid Spain,the
girl being smart has a file of some funds to the sum of $1.3 million Us
dollars which her late father deposited in a safe keeping company here in
Spain and her wicked uncles does not know about it. She has being very
scared to tell any one about this but confided and confessed to me today
about it. Now she asked me to help her locate someone who can help her get
the fund out of the safe keeping company then adopt and relocate her to
your country. She intends to further her education and become useful in
life.
The problem we are having now is that Anita is still an asylum seeker and
cannot come out openly to claim this fund,this is where we need your help
by concurring and accepting our proposal to have the fund released to you
and then send the money to your account. once this is done ,we shall come
over there,on behalf of Anita and have the money shared as proposed .Anita
is willing to to give you 30% of the total fund once the money is secured
through you.

If you are willing to help us, please email me immediately. Upon your
response,i shall give you further details on how to achieve this funds. I
hope to read from you soon.

May God Bless you abundantly

Regards,
Pastor Mateo Guiseppe.
Private email: mateo.guiseppe@gmail.com

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