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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: Daphne Henk <daphne@daphnehenk.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:45:36 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONTACT MY ATTORNEY


Dear Blessed one,

You may be surprised to receive this mail, as you read this, don’t feel so sorry for me simply because I believe everyone will die someday. My name is Mrs.Daphne Henk, a jewel merchant in Belgium. I have been diagnosed with esophagearl cancer which was discovered very late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all forms of medicine right now and I have only about few months’s to live according to medical experts. I have never particularly lived my life so well as I never really cared for anyone not even me but my business. Though I am very rich, but I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and I only focus on my business as that was the only thing I cared for in my life.

But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believed when God gives me a second chance to come to this world i would live my life in a different way from how I have lived before, but now that God has called me through this way I willed most of my prosperities and access to my immediate and extended family and as well as few close friends. I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul and so with that reason I decided to give alms to CHARITY ORGANISATIONS, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I did on earth so far, I have distributed money to some Charity Organisation in the U.A.E.like ALGERIA and Indonesia. Now that my health has deterioted so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore. I once asked my family members to close one of my accounts and distribute the funds which I have there to CHARITY ORGANSATION in Rwanda and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves.Hence,I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them the last of the funds which no one knows of it is the huge cash deposit of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($5,500,000.00) in one of the big banks in Netherlands. I want to know if you can be of good help to dispatch these funds to CHARITY organisations.

I have set aside 10% for you and your time and patience. May God be with you as you have decided to take a bold step to heal the world with me or even in my demise....? If you can give me this assistance, you can send an email to my lawyer who has all the legal documents covering this transaction. He would give you more details. His name is Mr.Marco Van Dijk and his Email Address: marcovandijklaw@aim.com and I fully assure that he would guide you through to receiving the funds.

Best Regards,

Mrs.Daphne Henk

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