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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: Bami Ndolo <bamindolo@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 17:14:12 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: DONATION FOR MINISTERIAL WORK


DONATION FOR MINISTERIAL WORK
My name is Mrs Bami Ndolo, I am 59 years old . I was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who left me everything he worked for. I  am  touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to the less privileged. I hope you can assist me to actualize my wish to make a free will donations to the less privilege, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly. Please pray, that the good Lord forgive me my sins.  I have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has because he is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation few days from now . I decided to donate the sum of $2,500,000:00 (two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows . At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives are around me and my health status.  I wish you all the best and may God bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.   I will be contacting you by email as I don't want my relatives or anybody to know about this because they are always around me at the hospital. Thanks and God bless you.Mrs Bami Ndolo,








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