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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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Fraud email example:

From: Julian Worker <julianworker122@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:27:42 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: FROM: Mrs. Julian M. Worker (Charity Donation Fund)

My Dearest in the Lord

I greet you in the name of the LORD Almighty the giver of every good thing. Good day and compliments of the seasons, I know it is true that this letter may come to you as a surprise. Nevertheless, I humbly ask you to give me your attention and hear me well, but I plead you to take your time to go through this message carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine my future existence, I am Mrs. Julian Worker, a widow, 58 years old, From United State Las Vegas, Working with the UNITED NATION; I am suffering from cancer of the lungs and presently hospitalized in general hospital Burkina Faso. I have some funds I inherited from my late husband, the sum of (USD$ 14.5Million Dollars) and I needed a very honest and God fearing who can withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity works. I WISH TO GIVE THESE FUNDS TO YOU FOR CHARITY WORKS. I found your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the LORD to connect me with a helper and i decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to handle these trust funds in good faith before anything happens to me.

Having known my condition I decided to donate this money to Churches, organizations or good person that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want you to use this money for Churches, Charity organizations, orphanages, widows and other people that are in need. l took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money . Moreover, my husband relatives are no longer closer to me since I developed this Cancer problem and it had been their wish to see me dead in order to inherit his wealth since we have no Child. These people are not worthy of this inheritance. This is why I am taking this decision.

I need your urgent reply so that I will give you the contact of our BANK and the deposit receipt which the Bank issued to me as next of kin for immediate transfer of the money to your account in your country, to start the good work of God, I am desperately in need of your assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you for this, you must not fail me and the millions of the poor people around you. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved, it is 100% RISK FREE with full legal proof. Please if you would be able to use the funds for the Charity works kindly let me know immediately to connect you with our BANK where the fund is. I will appreciate your most confidentiality and trust in this matter to accomplish my heart desire, as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. I want you to take 40 percent of the total money for your personal use while 60% of the money will go to charity.

Any delay in your reply may give me room to look for another good person for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health as the doctors instructed,

Hoping to receive your response soonest, Please reply through this my private Email address ( julianworker122@gmail.com

Thanks and Remain blessed
Yours Sister in The Lord,
Mrs. Julian Worker

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