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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:37:56 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GIFT_FROM_BOTTOM_OF_MY_HEART?=


Dear Friend,
How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition of health.
I am using this opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of my inheritance fund left for me and my family by my late husband (Gen. Sanni Abacha) but due to Government policies and banking bottle neck procedure at that time put in place to frustrate me from claiming the funds for political reasons by my late husband enemies.
But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred the fund out of the bank with the help of someone else who was capable of assisting me in the great venture .Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you showed at the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of 950,000.00 United States Dollars (USD) I have authorized my personal assistant to make arrange on how the funds will get to you in conjunction with my bank where my money is deposited.
Dearest I will like you to contact him for instructions and arrangement to get the funds transferred to you. The name and contact address of my P.A in charge is as follows.
CONTACT AGENT:Donnal McCarthy
EMAIL:donnalmccarthy1@mail.md
Tel:+23417027690992
At the moment, I am very busy and might not be able to attend to you because of the financial projects which myself and my new partner are having at hand in United Arab Emirate(Dubai).
Finally remember that I have forwarded instruction to my P.A on your behalf to perfect transfer arrangement as soon as you contact him always include the code:(XYZ) in all your communications with me which is a proof of assurance that you are instructed by me.
Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Best Regards,
Mrs.Maryam Abacha


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