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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: "MURRAY R. Anita" <mrsmurrayoffices@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:31:42 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear Friend!


Dear Friend,

Allow me to introduce myself to you by this way because, it is the only
chance for me to resolve the serious problem I have. I don't know if I
should finally do that but I know that my prayers send me to you and my only
hope is that you are a mature and trustable person.
My Name is Madam Anita Murray from France. I inherited a total sum of
8.5million dollars from my late husband Patrick Murray special adviser
of the
president of Philippine Joseph Estrada from 1998 to 2001; this money which
is concealed in a metallic trunk box have been deposited with a security and
finance company in Manila and transferred after in the security company
headquarter in Abidjan Ivory Coast. This deposit was coded under a secret
arrangement as a family treasure.
This means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk
box is cash money.
My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trust worthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of
the money to any address that you think are very secure and save in your
country because it is not corrupted like here, with your percentage of which
we shall chat on soon.
In fact, since the death of my husband I have been feeding from hand to
mount. His brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant
treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his
landed properties and confiscate them. They have successfully collected all
his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all
bank account of my late husband, which I did, but I never disclose to them
this deposit with the security company in Abidjan because this is where the
future of my little child and me lies upon.
In fact my husband give me this deposit informations to insure our little
son a perfect future because he knew that his cancer will kill him. The
family ignores existence of this deposit which we made with the security
company and they can never be aware of it. Out of fear of my late husbands
family, and when the situation becomes uncontrollable I decided e to leave
my husband country. Now that we are (my child and me) out of danger I decide
to look for a trustworthy person overseas who could assist me retrieve this
box of money from the security company for onward lodgement into his account
for the purpose of future investment and to buy a home and start a new and
honourable life. Because every body I though trust worthy in my husband
country have been unable to help me when I was tracked by my husband family.
Consider my situation as a widow and come to my rescue. I will send you the
necessary information to call the security company in my next mail which is
the deposit Certificate references and the code deposit number.
I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from
you soon.
Please do contact me back for more informations.

Sincerely,
Mrs MURRAY A.R.

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