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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: "Mrs. Mabel Ovis" <kohrogokabila0010@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Mabel Ovis" <mabelovis1515@hotmail.fr>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:59:01 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Charitable Donation From Mrs. Mabel Ovis

Charitable Donation From Mrs. Mabel Ovis
>From Mrs. Mabel Ovis
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire
West Africa.

Attention:

Greetings
in the name of the Almighty God/Allah the giver of every good thing. I
know this proposal will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I
implore you to take your time to go through it carefully as the
decision you make will go a long way to determine my future.

I am
Mrs. Mabel Ovis an ageing widow of 57 years old suffering from long
time illness. I have some funds which I inherited from my late husband,
the sum of USD $4,500,000.00 and I needed a very honest and God fearing
person who can withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity works.
I WISH TO ENTRUST THIS FUND TO YOU FOR CHARITY WORKS.

I found
your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the
Lord/Allah to bring me HONEST PERSON I CAN CONFIDE ON, and I decided to
contact you if you may be willing and interested to handle these trust
funds in good faith. I am desperately in keen need of assistance and I
have summoned up courage to contact you for this task, you must not fail
me and the millions of the poor people in our today’s WORLD.

This
is not stolen money and there are no dangers involved. Please if you
would be able to use the funds for the Charity works please kindly let
me know immediately for more details.

Please kindly respond quickly for further details if you can handle this task.

Regards,

Mrs. Mabel Ovis.

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