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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: helen chukuma <gbm_orphanagehome@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 10:57:41 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY



The Chairlady Head of Department Nigeria Orphanage Association
in person of Dr.Mrs Chukuma Helen and the fellow member staff are avgently seeking for your support, I am 52 year of age,The dream of supporting the orphanage has been my desire from the early stage of my life, The orphanage which started 16 year back.Has been in worse shape for 7 year now after all the effort of making or bringing it back to it normal condition proof abortive.

The augent seeking of aid led us to you, The orphanage home is in a bad state and government are not helping issues rather all they gave was on promises,The worse things is that its difficult to feed them <orphanage> twice a day, This predicamaent and acute starvation had led to some been affected by quashiokor,And we lost 10 percent of the children to the cold hands of death,Sometime malaria effections attacks severely due to the poor ventilation,



Also we have been moveing from one place to another here in nigeria so as to get some financial aids so that the children will have a good life to live in augently,Kindly assist us to help build back the state being of our orphanage home,
Thank for your perusal
god bless you as you help





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