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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. Abida Mubarak" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 05:27:32 +0300
Subject: Please read my attached drafted letter and see reasons why I made up my mind of donating my entire e

My Dearest,

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. Regard my email as personal and important, after our last conversation on Skype my system crash before I went for an operation. I lost all contacts. I am lucky enough to remember your email again at this critical stage when I need you most.

I would like to know if you can utilize 30 million GBP for charity and humanitarian work in my memory. Assist children of conflict; help those affected by war and disaster. I will be responsible for all the funding. In my search for a reliable and God fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. I am a widow without a child or any relation from Saudi Arabia, wife to King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. Before my husband death in 1 August 2005, I accompanied him to Europe in depositing 30,000,000 GBP in a security company as a long-term deposit which he used my name as the next of kin.

I've been recently diagnosed of a chronic incurable cancer. It is so overwhelming and hard to cope with the psychological affects since my doctor told me that I may not survive it and have few weeks to live. The security company has called me to reconfirm if I would like to fixed the money again or what I intend doing with it. I authorized the bank to transfer the accumulated interest of this deposit to support children with disaster in Haiti remaining the principal deposit.

I probably might not have the opportunity to be doing any social or humanitarian work again, but I still have deep passion to put smiles on the face of people who are less privileged. Presently, I have decided to donate to you my inheritance with the security company because I cannot bring this money back home. My husband relatives are very wealthy and arrogant; they will take everything from me. Ever since I lost my husband some properties he left on my care have been taking away from me because I was not married to him publicly and have been giving to his known wives. I was an orphan and grew up in the orphanage when my husband pick me up and make me his savant and later one of his wife’s.

My husband relatives develop more hatred for me because of my social, humanitarian work and I change from Islam to be Christian, they say I am lavishing the family wealth because I was once a servant. I have donated most of my estates to charity and orphans in Africa. I promise you a reward of 20% of the 30Million Pounds which you will use to build a foundation in my memory and also support upcoming churches. I need you to keep my dealings with you in high secrecy because if anyone here get to findout I will be stone to death or die by hanging for trying to support churches, the people here are very religious to Islam and can kill to protect and improve the development of Islam. I have no other friend or associate here I can relate this issue with due to my health and other factors. At this stage you are the only friend I have contact with presently, don’t worry about the fact that we have not met before.

email me at mrsaishamubarak@nba2k.com.cn

Sincerely,
Mrs. Abida Mubarak






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