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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: MRS MARY ANJUM <maryanjum1@live.com>
Reply-To: IndeRing@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:03:03 +0800 (CST)
Subject: [IndeRing] A CRY FOR HELP


Hello,

Greetings in the name of GOD.I am the above named person from South Africa.I am married to Dr.David Anjum, who worked with Kuwait embassy in Nigeria.for nine years before he died in the year 2004.We were married for eleven years without a child.He died after a brief illness that
lasted for only four days.


Before his death we were both happily married.Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $20.5m(Twenty Million five hundred thousand United States Dollars) in a finance company.Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the Finance Company here in Nigeria.Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to my cancer problems.

Having known my condition, I decided to donate this fund to charitable home or to a reliable individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a person that will use this fund on orphanages and widows propagating the word of almighty GOD ..I took
this decision because I don\\\\\\\'t have any child that will inherit this money and my husband\\\\\\\'s relatives are not trustworthy and I don\\\\\\\'t want my husband\\\\\\\'s hard earned money to be misused by them. I don\\\\\\\'t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner.

Hence the reasons for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I don\\\\\\\'t need any telephone communication in this regard atleast for now because of my health, since my husband\\\\\\\'s relatives are always around me. I dont want them to know about
this development. With GOD all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I will forward your personal information to my lawyer and he will contact you and aswell forward your personal informations to the Finance company here in Nigeria.so that they will contact you as the legal owner of this fund before releasing the fund into your account.

My Lawyer will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the original-beneficiary of this fund. Delay in your reply will mgive me room in sourcing for another reliable individual for this same purpose.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated
herein.Hoping to hear from you as soon as possible.

Remain blessed.
Mrs.Mary Anjum




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