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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. Susan Mathew." <mrssusanmathew2365@ozu.es>
Reply-To: mrs148@ozu.es
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:20:34 +0100
Subject: RE: Peace Be Unto You




Dear Friend.

Greetings in the name of God, Please let this not sound strange to
you, for my family lawyer who would have handled this executor ship of
my will on my behalf, died early this year after a protracted illness.
I prayed and got your email ID from your country's guest book. I am
Mrs. Susan Mathew from Dubai married to Mr.Gamal Mathew from Finland,
58 years old. I am suffering from a protracted cancer of the lungs.

From all indication my condition is really deteriorating and it is
quite obvious that, according to my doctor I have been advised that I
may not live for the next three months, this is because the cancer
stage has gotten to a critical and life threatening stage.

I was brought up in an orphanage home as a child of circumstance,
having been abandoned at birth by my teenage biological mother and
taken to an orphanage home by a Good Samaritan. I was married to my
late husband Mr. Gamal Mathew for twenty years without a child. My
husband was hypertensive and died of cardiac arrest.

Since my husbands death I decided not to re-marry, when my ailment
became terrible, I sold off all our choice properties and personal
belongings including a shopping mall, an hotel, shares, bonds,
jewelries and other valuable family treasures and deposited the
proceeds amounting to USD$10.2million dollars. Presently, this money
is still lodged with the Bank, and the management and board of
directors of the bank just wrote me as the sole owner to come forward
to receive the money after having kept it for so long a time in their
coffers, or that I can issue a letter of authorization to somebody to
receive it on my behalf since I can not come over and claim the funds
due largely to my illness or they get it confiscated.

Presently, I'm writing you with my laptop in a hospital in United
State, located at Rue De Moulin Concord. It is the leading cancer
treatment hospital in the world. I have been undergoing treatment for
cancer of the lungs. My doctors like I said earlier told me that I
have only three months to live. It is my last wish therefore to see
that 70% of this money which amounts to usd$7,140,000.00 (seven
million one hundred and forty thousand dollars only) is invested to
any organization of your choice and distributed each year among
charitable Organizations, the poor and the motherless babies homes.
You can also extend to churches and mosques, if you wish. 30% of the
money which amounts to usd$3,060,000.00(three million sixty thousand
dollars only) is for your personal use.

I want you as a God fearing person, to take it upon yourself and use
this money for the aforementioned purposes, I took this decision in
other to help humanity in my little capacity, before I rest in peace
in the bosom of the almighty, because according to my physicians my
time will soon be up. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you
the official contact of my contact person in the Bank that will assist
and guide you, to enable you claim the funds without delays. I will
also issue you a letter of authorization that will prove you as the
new beneficiary of my will. The funds have an open beneficiary
mandate, and as such it is whom I authorize to act on my behalf that
the bank will recognize and release the funds to. Please assure me
that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Note,You can make further contact with my financial mediator in
Hongkong once you replied.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Susan Mathew.

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