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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: "maria fung" <mfung6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mfung002@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:28:46 -0800
Subject: ASSIST AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dearest in Christ,
From my heart, I offer you my friendship and my
greetings; I hope this letter meets you in good time.
It will definitely be surprising to you to receive
this proposal from me since you do not know me
personally, However, I am sincerely seeking for your
assistance in this confidential transaction.
My name is Mrs. Maria Fung, a widow from Malaysia. I
am married to late Dr. James Fung an Engineer who
worked with the Shell petroleum Company in Europe. We
were happily married for years without a child of our
own; we were both born again Christians. Before the
death of my dear husband on the 5th of June 2005,he
deposited the sum of US$18.9million[Eighteen million
Nine hundred thousand United States dollars] with a
private diplomatic security/finance company in Europe
and I was the only person that knows about it because
of the close relationship between my late husband and
I. The security company does not know that the
consignment contains money because my husband
deposited the consignment as personal
effect/artifacts.
Recently, our family doctor told me that it will take
the mercy of GOD for me to live for one more year due
to my illness (cancer), what disturbs me mostly is one
of my legs that is now bad as a result of the illness,
Having known my condition I decided to entrust the
US$18.9million to a Christian individual that will use
this to fund to go into investments, assist churches,
orphanages and widows and also propagate the word of
God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.
The bible made us to understand that blessed are the
hands that giveth, so I took this decision to contact
you since I don't have any child of my own that will
inherit the money. My husband's relatives are not
Christians and I don't want my husband's hard earned
money to be misused by unbelievers, I don't want a
situation whereby the money will be used in an ungodly
manner, Hence the reason for taking these bold
decision to contact you for assistance.
I am no more afraid of death because I know where am
going to after I depart from earth. I know that I am
going to be in the bosom of the lord. Exodus 14vs14
says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold
my peace. I can only communicate with you via email
because of my health, I might not be able to call you
because of my health condition and because my in-laws
are around me, I don't want them to know about this
development.
As soon as I receive your positive reply, I shall give
you the contact of the Finance Company in Europe so
that you can contact them and claim the consignment of
money from them. I shall send you the deposit document
and a letter of authority from me to empower you as
the original beneficiary of this fund. I want you to
always pray for me, my happiness is that I lived a
worthy life and bear in mind that whoever that wants
to serve the lord must serve him in spirit and in
truth. Please always be prayerful all through your
life.

Yours truly
Mrs. Maria Fung.
Malaysia

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