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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: Elizabeth Kubala <elizabeth.agurina5@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: elizabethagurina@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:17:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Best compliments Belove


Best compliments Belove,

I am mother Elizabeth A.Kubala, 61 years old Canadian, married to Ivorian late Dissou A. Kubala. Please I got your email contact during my private search for a reliable/honest person that can help me run (Elizabeth & Kids Foundation) an orphanage home project. I already have the sum of $7.5 Million for this purpose. Mother Elizabeth & Kids as private owned entity organization, will be committed to providing extraordinary assistance to less privileged children round the globe. To allow for the consoling and wiping of their tears in every dimension and also committed to providing cutting edge and life changing opportunities. I certainly DO have a mission and one that I am sure will interest you. My mission is to reveal the real truths to those kids from all backgrounds of life striving to show them how to break free from the shackles of social and economic slavery inherent in a system that is deliberately manipulating its people into a straitjacket of mediocrity and often
poverty, by robbing them of their individual freedoms, privacy and rights. My mission is to give access to opportunity that most have no knowledge of, but when accessed and appreciated to the full, can profoundly change lives for the better. I strive to facilitate the process of being privy to a very high level of freedom and guarded future, to show how to step into busy mind arena with success and reclaim freedom, rights and give access to a simple turnkey life changing opportunity, which has incredible potential for enormous changing in multiple ways through Mother Elizabeth & Kids Foundation. This mission is to show the way out of a life of "abandonment" and direct those affected towards freedom, success and poverty liberation driving to the goal of development of kid's fullest potential, in order to best achieve all personal goals and dreams.

My PREDICAMENT:
My late husband late Engineer Dissou A.Kubala. left behind the said sum at one of the banks of Africa and there is no problem with that. We were married for 31 years without any child and since his death i decided not to re-marry because I loved him so much. This is nothing but the truth despite the perilousque my late husband was a great cocoa merchant and was killed by rebel forces last 4 years. Right now I am of course very old, sick and in the hospital about to under-go treatment for esophageal cancer at the moment hence my sickness has been confirmed beyond treatment within Africa owing to the recent diagnose report which said that I may not leave more than two months. I believe I am going to die so don't panic because death is inevitable. I have sent this email seeking your kind gesture to please go for the deposit on my behalf because I know there will be no kind of help one can render to a dieing woman like myself at this point than to stand firm with bold step to
accomplish my wishes. When my case was announced to my hearing by the doctors after keeping it to themselves for a while, I was challenged after watching CNN news about one Mr. Buffett, an American rich man who donated about 84% of his whole wealth to the service of humanity and charity. After I watched the news, I asked myself a question: "if a healthy man without sickness can take this kind of step for humanitarian service, how much more myself, who have been confirmed at the door post of death? At this point, I came to the decision of using the deposit my late husband left behind to contribute to charity and humanitarian service.

Please understand that why I do not wish to entrust this huge responsibility to any person, not even my late husband relatives or friends is because they may plunder the fund even as some did after my husband's death and my illness, and now I can not imagine the agony of that hence I have contacted you. Here is my last opportunity to contribute my own quota by showing love and affection to those less privileged children out there with no one to care them. why don't you get back to me immediately with your phone number and address as soon as you receive this email so that I can give you contact information of the bank and a renowned attorney that will help you work out release of the deposit for this purpose? So that you can contact them on my behalf for release of the deposit to you as my Next of Kin.

I wait to hear from you.

Kind regards,

Mother Elizabeth.

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