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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: "amson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susanamsonhola2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:32:53 -0000
Subject: From Mrs. Susan Amson

From Mrs. Susan Amson
 
I am Mrs. Susan Amson from Netherlands,I am 68 years old, i am suffering from a long time cancer of the breast, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that i can't work or do any stressful thing, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months,this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies home was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child,
 
My Husband (Roberto Patrick) died in a fatal motor accident Before his death we were true Christians.   Since his death I decided not to re-marry,
I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $5.6 million dollars with a Security Company in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
 
Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long with attract a demurage fees as the security fees paid by me has expired or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confisticated.
 
So instead of getting it confiscated i rather have someone whom i can trust to recieve the funds and utilise it according to my wishes.
 
All i need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when recieved by you will be used for the said purpose, Nowadays there are so much scams going on in the internet and it is diffcult to trust but i dont know why the Holy spirit still approved me to email you about this out of few email addresses i have from the internet, yours was the only one that my mind convienced me to contact.
Waiting for your reply.
Yours in Christ,
 
Mrs. Susan Amson

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