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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. Susan Amson" <bartus.gawron@neostrada.pl>
Reply-To: newmoon440@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:20:47 +0100
Subject: confirmed recieved!

Dear Friend,

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 funds valued at Five million, Six Hundred Thousand United States dollars with Security Company in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Presently, i am using my laptop in the hospital at Frankfurt Germany where I have been undergoing treatment for my sickness. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live.

Presently, the management of the bank has contacted me to come and receive the money or renew the security duration otherwise would 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 funds will be confiscated.

It is my last wish to see atleaset 60% of this money invested/donated to any charty organization of your choice .All i seek for is a God fearing person,who will carry out my wishes and making sure the funds are not confiscated by the bank out of their selfish interest. 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 my spirit still approved me to email you regarding this situation out of few email addresses i have from the internet, yours was the only one that my mind convinced me to email this situation.

Waiting for your reply, so that i can instruct you on necessary action.

Yours in Christ,

Mrs. Susan Amson

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