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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: "Mrs nanaya Ali" <nanaya_help@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsnanaya@myway.com
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:48:39 +0000
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE...

Dear,
Greetings to you! May the Peace and Understanding of the Almighty God
be
your portion always. I crave your Indulgence to present this proposal
to you
with clean heart and Mind.
I am Mrs.Nanaya Ali from Ghana, West Africa, formerly known as Gold
Coast. I
was married to Late Engineer Frederick Ali of blessed memory who was a
Gold
Miner for 13 years in Ghana Gold Mines Company before he died in the
year
3rd Sept. 2005.
We were married for (14) Fourteen years without a child. He died after
an
accident that occurred from the collapse of a part of the mining ground
,
when a big rock hit his back. After his death, the shock has not left
me
still and recently I became a victim of High blood pressure and Cancer
of
the Breast, and the only remedy left according to my doctor now at
Korlebu
Teaching Hospital Accra Ghana where I am admitted is that the affected
breast is cut off, otherwise I may have a few days to spend on this
planet
earth.
Coming to the reason why I contacted you,my husband when he was alive
deposited the total sum of US$7.3million with Nicon Security Company
Ghana
Limited.
Having known my condition now, I decided to contact you for a great
assistance and to serve as my next of kin/foreign partner in this (This
is
because of the value of the money in the consignment box to be claimed
and
transferred to your place) so as to enable me transfer the funds easily
from
the security company to your destination/place.
Once the claim and transfer is made, I will be enabled to make choice
of one
of the best Hospital in the world or around you that are good in
treatment
of cancer ailments for more professional touches to my health but this
would
only be possible when the deposited funds are claimed from the security
company so that I can finance my travel to any country that can take
good
care of me and payment of bills at the hospital. What of your country?
Do
you have good doctors on Cancer?
What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul? I
had
thought over the above statement and I concluded that you will assist
me in
investing the funds into whatever that will be of great benefit to the
poor
and the less priviledged. I took this decision because I don't have any
child that will inherit this money, I had only 1 sister and 1 brother
from
my parents, both died in a car accident some years ago, and my late
husband
was the only child of her parents, so I don't want a situation where
these
funds will be dumped unclaimed and unused in the security company, in
the
name of securing it, while I pass away. God will not be happy with me!
I am being assisted here only by my late husbands old lawyer friend and
wife, who visits me at times at the hospital and I am glad to tell you
that
he will be the one to assist us in any legal requirements and paper
works in
the process of this claim and delivery of the consignment box to your
place.
I will not also forget to promise, that after the successful claim of
the
consignment, I will compensate you with 25% out of the total funds, and
then
you will help me also with the investment as I have earlier suggested.
This
is my Word and my Bond with you.
Pray for me always and I will also pray for you in your meditation over
this
plea, so that we will have an embracing relationship at last, bound
with
trust and doubt-free mind in actualizing the claim of these funds. I am
waiting eagerly holding on for your voice of acceptance and
continuation to
the process of the claim so that I will tell you what you should do
next.
Bye and be blessed forever.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Nanaya Ali.

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