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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: MARY MBADINUJU <mbadirosey@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <m.mbadinuju@merseymail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:03:56 -0600
Subject: Calvary greetings and hoping to hear from you



Dear Friend,

Greetings! For this letter is strictly personal, intimate and confidential. Forgive this unusual manner of contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional and very private in nature. There is absolutely going to be a very great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this email, because of the fact that you do not know me before and also coupled with the fact that so many miscreants have taken possession of the Internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for person like me to get attention and recognition. There is no way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it is my duty to write and reach out to you for urgent assistance as God wishes and pray that I will get the assistance I needed from you.

Briefly, I am Rosemary Mbadinuju from Anambra state of Nigeria. My husband died last year and because of the sudden and his unexpected death, my husband people accused me of being reponsible for his death and wanted me to swear an oath to affirm my innocence over his death because of this I was taken to a village shrine, I vehemently refused to swear the oath since I am a christian. My refusal did not go down well with them and they sent me packing with my children empty handed as they took possesion of all my husband's properties.

Luckily for me now, the federal ministry of works and housing (FMWH), where my husband worked as a contractor wants to pay me $1.2m only being money they owed to my late husband and they have asked me to come forward to put for approval of the money for payment to me. My husband people are not aware of this payment

So,due to what I am passing through presently, I decided to invest this money abroad and it is because of this situation that I was compelled to write to you seeking for your assistance to see if I can get any.

In the event of accepting to assist me, then quickly get back to me so that I can seek for the approval of the money for payment into any bank account you will provide and then after, I will come over to your country for purpose of investing the money.

I await for your responseGod blessMrs Rosemary

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