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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 Marian Usman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barrgloverc@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:03:48 +0100
Subject: Dear Beloved!!

Dear Beloved,

Greetings in the name of the Lord! My name is Mrs. Marian Usman. I am terminally
ill and have decided to donate my inheritance from my husband to you. No doubt,
you may wonder how I got to know you and your email address and what informed
my decision to will my fortune to you, when I have lots of people I know better
to whom I should have willed my fortune here. Dear, you have no cause to worry
about these questions, for I mean no harm.

Regarding how I got your personal details, it is via the internet with the help
of the nurse assigned to attend to me in my private ward here in the hospital.
Because I cannot surf on my own due to partial stroke, it is the nurse who
surfs for me under my direction. On deciding to donate my fortune to an
Individual, I instructed her to search from the internet 15 individual profiles
at random and to conduct randomized sampling on the profiles and whosoever
Profile that is chosen shall donate my inheritance to, hence your profile was
chosen. Therefore, I am donating my fortune to you partly because of your
Selection random sampling experiment and because my husband and I never had any
child, despite all our attempts at child-bearing.

Again, it may interest you to know that I am 59 years old and have been
diagnosed of acute cancer for about 2 years now, shortly after the death of my
husband, which made me hypertensive and resulted in stroke. In my present
condition, life is without meaning to me and hope has since eluded me. Each day
I give my entire existence a thought, I feel over-powered by gloom and despair
and saw nothing but death lurking around. All these are my reasons for deciding
on using anything in my name for charity in which coincidentally you have been
favored as the beneficiary. I must tell you that I was truly touched by God to
Take this decision/action.

I decided not to donate my inheritance to the people I know around me but
Instead a stranger, because if I did, upon my death, my husband's relatives will
Engage the beneficiary in litigation (court case), claiming the donation is
Without their consultation and consent and to that extent my decision/action is
Null and void, and they may use their connections and influence to reclaim or
Recover it, a thing I hate to imagine! My husband's relatives are such that it
will amount to betrayal of my late husband if I let them have his hard-labored
Fortune and enjoy it, despite how they mistreated my late husband under my very
nose. God forbid that I will let them reap where they did not sow. this is,
again, part of the reasons for my decision/action.

I will expect that you will as am about doing to you this day do to the lives of
others, for life is better lead on the philosophy of give and take. I will
advise
that you don't see your windfall as avenue for pleasure spree but should see it
as an opportunity to build and grow your personal finances to an enviable
level, for both your benefit and the benefit of others.

Always put me in your prayers and ask God to forgive my sins and trespasses
I shall be undergoing major operations in less than a month from now and have
Willed/donated the sum of $US 1, 600,000.00 (One Million, Six Hundred Thousand
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to you for your personal use and for the purpose of
Helping the needy and less-privileged around you. Right now, the money is still
in
the safe keeping of KEMCAST SECURITY/ FINANCIAL COMPANY LIMITED, UNITED KINGDOM
and they are aware of my donation of the money to you. Why I kept the money in
a security company instead of a bank was that I don't want any of my bad in-
laws to trace the funds.

Please, note that, because I do not want my husband's relatives, who have spies
all
around me to know of the latest developments, coupled with my worsening health
condition. I shall not entertain phone calls and conversations. If you are sure
that you will use the donated fund as I have advised here, contact my personal
Lawyer (Attorney) to help you arrange the legal rudiments involved in the change
of ownership of the fund to your name. You may reach my lawyer via his private
details below:

My lawyer (Attorney): Barrister Glover Christopher
Mobile: +44702406913
Email: barrgloverc@aol.com



You should give my lawyer your cooperation so that he assists you fully in the
Processing of the legal documents involved in your donation/request. All the
best!

Please always contact me via my email below:
Mrs. Marian Usman.
Email: mrsmarianusman1@gmail.com

CC: My lawyer (Attorney)
Barrister Glover Christopher
Email: barrgloverc@aol.com

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