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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. Susan Lee" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susanlee12@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 01:14:57 -0400
Subject: Urgent Request

My Dear Beneficiary,

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have never met before and you would also be asking why I have decided to chose you among the numerous internet users in the world. Precisely, I cannot say why I have chosen you but do not be worried for I saw your profile on the Internet, which has made me accomplish my request. May the almighty God bless and see you through with this mission if you can carefully read and digest the message below.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I am Mother Susan Lee, 72 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Danon lee who died after a long illness on Monday the 7th of September 2001 GMT 14:22 UK.

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment and now that I am old and weak I have decided to spend the rest of my life with my family and loved ones whom I never had time for during the course of my business life, but before the death of my husband we had a plan to use the last days of our lives to donate half of what we have worked for to the less privilege and charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members and close friends, and it is so unfortunate that my husband is not alive today to do this with me and I am very weak and old now, hence I have decided to do this philanthropic work on behalf of my late husband and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity homes and to some of the less privileged in different countries. Despite the agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the deprived, we also agreed to render support to an individual we have not meet before in life due to the fact when we were still young in life we receive an anonymous help from an individual we did not know and which we have not being able to know till date, the impact we got from such gesture made us to do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me because I have just concluded the assignment which my husband and I have agreed upon before his sudden death and you happened to be the beneficiary of our last WILL, irrespective of your previous financial status, hence I need you to do me a favor by accepting our offer that will cost you nothing.

I have presently deposited a Cheque in the sum of $5,800,000.00 United States Dollars with Bank in United States to transfer to you, what you have to do now is to contact Bank as soon as possible to know when they will transfer your money to you because of the expiring date.

I only made the deposit with your EMAIL ADDRESS and DEPOSIT CODE (20357478492) because I do not know your bank account number you would want to receive the money with. I couldn't find them on net while browsing your profile if not I would have given it to the BANK for immediate transfer.

For your information, I have paid for the Insurance Premium and Wire transfer Fee of the cash showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorism in your Country.

Let me repeat again, you are not to pay for the Insurance Premium and the Wire transfer Fee of the Cheque because I have already paid for them, the only money you are expected to pay is $85 United States Dollars for the Account Activation to enable the bank transfer the sum to your local account without you paying any further charges for transfer. I would have paid the fee but the bank insisted that I should not because they don't know when you will be contacting them and to avoid demurrage or further cost. Please my dear if you know that you will not help me with the $85 United States Dollars please do not contact me or the ING Bank, please i need some one that will help me.

You have to contact the Bank now for the transfer of the cheque with this information below;

Name: Fedderal Reserved Bank
Contact Person: Daniel
Tel: +1 917 409 4738
Email: danielktarullo2015@gmail.com

You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake in transfer.
Postal address;
Full Names:
Direct telephone number;

Below is the DEPOSIT CODE (20357478492) of the draft, you are to also present it to them for verification before transfer.

Note: Please I do not want you to thank me or my husband all I need you to do is to invest wisely with it and do the same good to someone’s life someday as this is the only way this world would be a better community if we render selfless services to one another.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Susan Lee
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