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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: "shello Hutson" <shello03@gala.net>
Reply-To: brenny2@adinet.com.uy
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:02:34 +0200
Subject: FROM MRS. BRENDA SHELLO HUTSON TO THE GLORY OF GOD


FROM MRS. BRENDA SHELLO HUTSON TO THE GLORY OF GOD
le'Meridian Hospital and Annex , Cocody,
Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Private Email Address: brenny2@adinet.com.uy


PLEASE ENDEAVOR TO USE IT FOR THE WORK OF CHARITY

Grace of God to you My Beloved One in the Lord,and may the blessings of God
be on us all till the end of time.

My Dear Beloved One, while i was very deligent to write to you,i found it
necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly as you receive
these letter for the faith which i have for you, and praying that peace and
love be to you and your family now and always.These is the reason why i
summoned up courage to write these email directly to you, hopefully you will
receive it as a responsible and God fearing sonmeone. I am a practicing
christain and i sincerely appreciate the works of God in my life.

I am 49 years old woman from Philipines, but presently in a private hospital
where i am undergoing surgery treatment because of my ill-health .I was
married to Dr. DEL PEDRO HUTSON ,who worked with the Philipine Embassy in
Ivory Coast and also the founder and President of PEDRO FARMS INCORPORATED,
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, a douwry Producing farm company. Unforturnatley he
died after a brief illness that lasted for four days only and we were
married for twenty one (21) years with only a child David who is just 17
years, and were prayerful to God Almighty who gave us success in everything.
Since my husband died , I decided not to re-marry rather to devout my time
to being a good and loving mother to our only son,David before my illness
started.

But before the death of my husband, we deposited the sum of Eight million
United States Dollars ($8,000,000.00) only, in one of the leading Banks
there in Ivory Coast.I have all documents of these fund presently in my
custody.

With the help of a Nurse here, by name Pascalin,who have being so kindful to
assist me to write these email,i want you to know that what matters most is
trust and sincerity, since we do not know ourselves previously.I have
avoided my husband's relativs to have access to these money because of there
ungodly behaviour and i do not want them to have any idea about it for the
safety of my son.

Presently my son David is in a Boarding school because i do not want my late
husbands relatives to know of his whereabout because the have being very
hostile to us since after the death of My husband, though i pleaded to our
church Pastor to be looking after him till i return.

Now my doctor indicated on a recent diagonisis , that I would not last more
than 3 months due to my increasing cancer problem but the one that worries
me so much is the stroke which hase being disturbing me so much .Having
known my condition as at this time, I then decided to contact you to tell
you about these pressing problem and plead that you to stand as a guardian
to me and my son and receive these money since i do not know what the
surgery operation will be like.

Since i do not know the outcome of these surgery which will be in 3 days
time,all i want to let you know is that you will receive these money as the
guardian to David, and you will stand as his adopted Guardian and you will
use part of the money to make David come over to your country and you take
care of him and make him continue his education and be a better man in the
future. You will also donate part of these money to churches, mosques,
charity homes and welfare organisations since David is still small and do
not have any idea about handling such money. On these i looked up on a
directory an individual who is trustworthy to utilize this money the way it
will please God and those in need hence i came across to you.

What i want you to do on these situation is to have the full access to these
money so that once it gets to your custody, you will handle it as i have
requested from you. All i require is your total honesty and sincerity
regarding these and i want you to know that i have laid on you a very rare
trust and i hope that you would not betray it.

As soon as i receive a reply to my email to you, i shall inform my bank to
make these transfer of funds to you and i shall give you all the documents
that the bank gave to my late husband when he deposited the money, and
please you have to be fast with everything because your delay may be
dangerous as i have very few days to go in for the surgery.I have waited
these far because i do not want to go in for the surgery till i am sure i
have handed over these money to a very safe hands.

I wish you the best as you Execute these work of charity to the Glory of
God.Please feel free to call us with these number: +225-0321-7355 and also
reply me through my private email address : brenny2@adinet.com.uy

God bless as i wait to hear from you,

Mrs B.Shello Hutson and Son David.
+225-0321-7355

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