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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: maries raji <marie7@live.com>
Reply-To: <marieraji@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:01:27 -0500
Subject: Dearest friend,



Dearest friend,

Greetings in the name of God, I want you to be my beneficiaryanywere you may be, if God will in his infinite mercies touch yourheart, i am reaching you privately from hospital.
Please let my health condition not sound strange to you for my only surviving husband who would have done this died early this year. I searched for you with my labtop computer while on my sick bed.
I am Mrs Marie Rajih,I am 55,years old,i am deaf and suffering from a long time cancer of the breast which also affected my brain,from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months,this isbecause the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage in my body.
I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married to my latehusband for twenty years without a child because of series of abortions.My husband died in a fatal motor accident.Before his death we were trueChristians.Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all myinherited belongings and deposited all the sum of 9.5million dollarswith a bank Security Company storage house in Europe.
Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long orrather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on mybehalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get itconfisticated. Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I havebeen undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see that this money isinvested to any organisation of your choice and distributed each yearamong the charity organization,the poor and the motherless babies homewhere i come from.I want you God fearing, to also use this money to fundchurches, orphanages and widows.I took this decision, before i rest inpeace because my time will soon be up. Give me these information if i can trust you.

Full Name................
.Cell Phone.............Address...........
Country..........

Send these information to my mailbox: marieraji@yahoo.co.inYou have to immediately send me your information and subject to your response, i will have the hospital attorney draft out an agreement to seal up this fund in your name and you can also deal with the bank directly if you want.I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary ofmy late husband's fund. Please assure me that you will act accordinglyas I stated here in. Hoping to hearing from you soon.
Please you must treat this a personal matter as God will bless you for helping me soon at this coming christmas.Sincerely yours,
Mrs Marie Raji.
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