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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: RITA DON <steve_konann005@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: ritadon2009@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:46:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Beloved One Good Morning


Dear Beloved One Good Morning











 
How are you and how about your family members? Hope all is
well with them and also with you, Greeting from Rita God bless you for
honouring my request, I hope you are having a wonderful day and also I
pray that you and your family be under the protection of God
almighty.after going through your short profile and I deemed it
necessary to write you immediately, I know that my message will come to
you as a surprise since I don’t  know you in person or met with you
before but I was touched to air up my pains to you believing in you for
assiting.
 
But let me explain myself to you before going further.I am Ms Rita Don from Mali,










I am 37 years old, but I was with my husband in Abidjan
Ivory Coast before his death, I am suffering from a long time cancer of
the breast. By all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and
my doctors have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond the
next two months; this is because the cancer stage has reached a
critical stage.It maybe surprise to you that I was raised in a
motherless baby's home from Mali but my late husband came visiting the
home and have interest in me,
 
I was married to my late husband
for 13 years without a child. My husband and I are true Christians, but
quite unfortunately, he was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business,  Since his
death I decided not to re-marry,though my late husband made a deposit
with a Bank here in Abidjan










capital city of Ivory Coast. Presently, this money is
still in their custody,the entire cash left after his burial has blown
like wind because of my illness and the management of the bank just
wrote me as the next of kin to come further for the money though I have
been there so many times before my illness but now that I can not
continue going there.










 










I have been asked to seek for someone who will act on my
behalf or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive
it on my behalf since I can not come over as a result of my illness, or
they  will get the account been put as unclaimed money.










 










But what complicated the whole issue is that my late
husband left a regid agreement that this money will be handle by a
foreign investor under my supervision, Presently, I'm with my laptop in
a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment. I have since lost my
ability to talk fluently because of illness 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 is invested in any organization of your choice and
distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor and the
motherless babie's home where I was raised from since you are from
outside our country it will suit my late husband's agreement with the
bank.
 
I want a good humanitarian, to also use this money to
fund churches, orphanagees and widows around the world just as I was
cared for when I know nothing in a motherless baby home.I must let you
know that this was a very hard decision,but I had to take a bold step
towards this issue, and I hope you will help me see my last wish come
true.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for
your effort.As soon as I hear from you I will give you the contact
informations of my church pastor for you to be familiar with him as he
will guild you for the sucess of this transfer since he is here present
and because of my illness I will not be able to follow up things the
way it should so he will direct you more even if I die he will be here
to carry out my last wish with you.










 










I will attach my personal photo in  here for you to see me though it was picture taken before my illness,










 










Am waiting for your urgent reply 










 










God bless you.










 










Sister










 










Rita Don



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