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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: "phina udom" <phinaudomdona@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: phinaudom@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:46:18 -0700
Subject: Confidential

Dear
I greet you in the name of our lord Jesus Christ. My name is Mrs. phina
Aisha udo. I am a widow and a mother of three all girls. I
know you will see my letter to you as an embarrassment considering
the fact that we do not know ourselves.
I plead with you to be patient with me I feel very pleased to contact
you for some assistance and business relationship. I live in BENIN
REP OF COTONOU with my children. My late husband was a loving,caring
and hard working businessman who died unfortunately In a ghastly auto
crash.
Before the sudden death of my beloved husband, and father of my
daughters, my late husband intended to establish a business in
the united states of America with the sum of$20 million united states
dollars, but unfortunately he died before this proposed venture.
Following his death, his family members insisted that I am not
entitled to his property (Assets and money) since I am a woman
and my offspring's all girls as I do not have a male child for my
husband.
Well, according to some barbaric traditional laws here in
COTONOU (Africa) which doesn't permit a woman to inherit a man's
property, as they are expected by tradition to take over the
management of his business and other properties including myself who
automatically becomes a wife to one of his immediate brothers.
Unfortunately to this wicked family members, the $20 million
united states dollars which my late husband intended to use in
establishing a business in the United States was deposited in a bank
account in BENIN unknown to his family .
I and the lawyer is the only
one aware of this money, so I have discussed this matter with a staff
of the bank that i want this money personally so that I will be able
to take care of my children's educational needs since my husband's
family members vehemently opposed the furtherance of their education.
According to the staff of the bank, the best way to secure this
money is to transfer this money to a bank account For safe-keeping,
later it will be used for business establishment subject to the
Advise of whosoever finally assists us.
At this juncture, I there fore ask for your sincere assistance in providing
us with your bank details and the enablement to facilitate the remittance of
this fund into your nominated account.
As soon as I get your positive response, I shall provide you with all the
necessary detail for this transfer.
However, I have decided to to give you 20% of the total money as
a reward for your sincere assistance and the remaining 80% of the
money will be for my investment in your country under your care as I
will want to keep aglow my late husbands dream of investing in real
estate. To be able to help me, kindly send through my email
Email:phinaudom@yahoo.com your personal details including your contact
information for easy communication.
Thanking you for your anticipated response .
Mrs. Phina Aisha Musebo and children
Nb:Reply confidentially to my email phinaudom@yahoo.com

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