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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: "ASSIST" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infoclaims.lawyers@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:56:05 +0100
Subject: ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is Mrs. Judith Morris , a well known business woman. I am 69 years old, living in The Southern Part of Wales (United Kingdom). I am a successful business woman, owning some industries and companies, with some good stocks in various banks. I have spent all my life, investing in co-operate businesses and real-estates until the death of My husband and two of our beautiful kids in a ghastly car accident that took place sometimes in mid November 2003.

I must say that after the death of my family, I became a workaholic and very greedy with businesses and I presume that is what lead to my present ordeal. I stopped caring for people around and forgot how to live. However, my abuse of alcohol and tobacco increased and that lead to another problem when in early 2005, February to be precise, I got a letter for medical checkup after a brief illness. After wards, I was told by my personal Doctor, that I have a cancer of the lungs, which according to her, would not allow me to live longer anymore. Ever since then, doing businesses has become uneasy as I am frequently in and out of the hospital for treatments, medications and Chemo-therapy sections.

In light with the above, I have since, started attending to a local church and presently made some substantial donation to the church. It actually felt good. Therefore, I have recently, consulted the pastor for a private counseling. I have told him my life story and we prayed together and after wards, he gave me an advice which is my reason of contacting you at this moment.
His advice was this:

That the Lord will grant my soul mercy if I could help the needy people, homeless, orphans and less privileged homes that need this money. Including Business women and men for investment, whereby most of the earnings will be used in helping less privileged families and people. I have sold my companies, houses and other assets. Coupled with my bank accounts, a substantial amount at the estimate of (US$ 20.000.000.00) Twenty Million United States Dollars, is realized for this project.

Because of the above reasons therefore, I am writing this letter to people who really need help from me, to please contact me urgently, to discuss on his/her plans towards the use of the money.
Please contact me Via Email judithmorris@rediffmail.com and let me know what you intend to do with the money and if satisfied, I will introduce you to my private lawyer whom I have set up all arrangements with for further discussions. As you know, I am a born again and so much with God’s work. Therefore, I would appreciate it a lot, if you are a God fearing human with a good heart.

May the good God bless you, as you reach me, please I wish to remind you, that you should not belong to scammers or any act of fraudulent as the God sees and knows everything, He surely will point you out. Therefore, be as honest to me as possible and our God will do the rest.
With best Regards,

Mrs. Mrs. Judith Morris.

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