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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: "Mrs. Anita Williams" <willanita001@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsanitawilliams01@inMail24.com
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:07:44 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Urgent Response Please




Dear Friend.

Greetings in the name of God, Please let this not
sound strange to you, for my family lawyer who would
have handled this executor ship of my will on my
behalf, died early this year after a protracted
illness. I prayed and got your email ID from your
country's guest book. I am Mrs. Anita Williams from
Oman, 58 years old. I am suffering from a protracted
cancer of the lungs, which has also affected my brain
cells as a result of complications. From all
indication my condition is really deteriorating and
it is quite obvious that, according to my doctor I
have been advised that I may not live for the next
two months, this is because the cancer stage has
gotten to a critical and life threatening stage.

I was brought up in an orphanage home as a child of
circumstance, having been abandoned at birth by my
teenage biological mother and taken to an orphanage
home by a Good Samaritan. I was married to my late
husband Mr. Gamal Williams for twenty years without a
child. My husband was hypertensive and died of
cardiac arrest.

Since my husbands death I decided not to re-marry,
when my ailment became terrible, I sold off all our
choice properties and personal belongings including a
shopping mall, an hotel, shares, bonds, jewelries and
other valuable family treasures and deposited the
proceeds amounting to USD$10.2million dollars with
First Inland Bank Plc. Presently, this money is still
lodged with the Bank, and the management and board of
directors of the bank just wrote me as the sole owner
to come forward to receive the money after having
kept it for so long a time in their coffers, or that
I can issue a letter of authorization to somebody to
receive it on my behalf since I can not come over and
claim the funds due largely to my illness or they get
it confiscated.

Presently, I'm writing you with my laptop in a
hospital in England, located at fulham road in west
London. It is the leading cancer treatment hospital
in the world. I have been undergoing treatment for
cancer of the lungs. My doctors like I said earlier
told me that I have only two months to live. It is my
last wish therefore to see that 70% of this money
which amounts to usd$7,140,000.00 (seven million one
hundred and forty thousand dollars only) is invested
to any organization of your choice and distributed
each year among charitable Organizations, the poor
and the motherless babies homes. You can also extend
to churches and mosques, if you wish. 30% of the
money which amounts to usd$3,060,000.00(three million
sixty thousand dollars only) is for your personal
use.

I want you as a God fearing person, to take it upon
yourself and use this money for the aforementioned
purposes, I took this decision in other to help
humanity in my little capacity, before I rest in
peace in the bosom of the almighty, because according
to my physicians my time will soon be up. As soon as
I receive your reply I shall give you the official
contact of the First Inland Bank plc officials, to
enable you reach them without delays. I will also
issue you a letter of authorization that will prove
you as the new beneficiary of my will. The funds have
an open beneficiary mandate, and as such it is whom I
authorize to act on my behalf that the bank will
recognize and release the funds to. Please assure me
that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Please reply me through these my private email Address:
mrsanitawilliams01@inMail24.com

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Anita Williams





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