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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: "Mrs Helen Jordan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrshjordan@xtra.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:56:51 -0000
Subject: Re:Request


Greetings,

What a wonderful time and time to be communicating with you. My name is Mrs
Helen Jordan,am a 71 years old widow resident in London, United Kingdom. In
January 12, I will celebrate 5 years as a multiple myeloma (MM) survivor. I am
fortunate that my initial treatment, and the current one I am on, have
controlled my disease well and allowed me to live an active and normal life. The
only change has been to make me more aware of the love and beauty that surround
me and increase the joy of every day.

I lost my husband to cancer in 2007 and until then He was a Manager with Ghana
Oil Company Ltd (GOIL / GOC), a partly British-owned company in Ghana. He has
being the source of my joy and inspiration and has supported me financially in
my many charity works. We were a loving couple, our only pain was our inability
to bear children, though we tried to make it up, by helping as many children as
we could.

Within the 5 years of my illness I founded a private trust fund which received
funding from my late husband's investment turnover and donation from private
groups and donates this money to Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)'s
Race for Research and other research foundation for the cure and prevention of
multiple myeloma (MM) and other forms of cancer. The MMRF is the #1 funder of
myeloma research worldwide, and is making a difference every year for myself and
other people with this rare and incurable cancer. Through MMRF funding and
coordination of the efforts of researchers, drug companies and the Food and Drug

Administration, three new myeloma drugs have been developed and marketed within
the past 5 years, including the drug revlimid which I have been taking since
February of this year. An MMRF consortium of 15 cancer centres is also
currently working on dozens of promising new drugs.

I am writing to ask for your support in establishing a similar trust fund in
your country that will not just only provided funding for research organization
but also support for people with various forms of cancer in your local
communities. I am contacting you not for lack of people to support around me
which I have been doing, but a deep desire to touch people I am yet to meet,
people who known nothing about me, people with cancer and lack fund to care for
themselves.Let them have the chance to life and happiness like I have and I have
chosen you to be the medium to reach them. I shall donate the sum of Five
million, Eight hundred thousand Dollars of my husband fixed deposit to you for
this purpose.

I am offering you the chance to be of great effect to your community. Though
charity work as you know is offered free, but a laborer is worthy of his meat,
so am offering at your acceptance of this project 25% of the total sum for your
effort, 6% will be used for all logistic, management, salary and getting the
necessary research information, though if it pleases and you already have
enough, you can also donate part of your 25% to the trust account, as you will
be richly blessed also. I am making an impassioned plea for you to consider this
great task and if you are inspired to carry on with it kindly reply me with your
phone number and full name so that I can give you further instruction for you to
receive the fund and proceed with this great work.

Research is bringing hope for the future, and no one is more hopeful than I am.
With advances being made every day, I look forward to a LONG and QUALITY life.
With your support and prayers, my hopes can become reality and the hope of those
around you can also be a reality. If you are interested in working with me
kindly email me with your full name and phone number for more details

With thanks and love,
Mrs Helen Jordan

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