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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. Emily Osadebay" <mrs.emilyosadebay@zing.vn>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 16:17:17 +0200
Subject: Urgent



Sir/madam

I am Mrs. Emily Osadebay, a Briton and a Principal Nursing
Officer for Cancer Control in one of the Hospital here in
Bahamas. I am writing on behalf of my patient (name withheld
for confidential reasons), whom due to serious illness could
not speak very well nor write. She is presently under intensive
care in my hospital where she is been diagnosing of multiple
cancers (Acute Leukemia, Pancreatic cancer and Lung cancer).
Under her specific instructions, she has asked me to help her
write and make contacts to concerned good caring citizens of
the world whom would be willing to assist her carryout her
objectives. I regret that she does not permit me to handle this
matter myself for reasons best known to her.

My patient is from Freeport, Bahamas, married to a wealthy
businessman and a philanthropist (a CEO to several shipping
companies across the Freeport on the island of Grand Bahamas).
She married for 12 years without a child until her husband died
December 2005 after a brief illness. She is 60 years old and
has inherited all the husband’s businesses and properties of
great fortune, but was struck with serious illness that she can
hardly survive the next 5 months alive. Before her situation
got this worst, she has before hand informed me of her
intentions and begged me to make sure that her wishes and
desires are carried out in godly manners.

She confidently informed me that she had put together all her
late husband’s assets in one investment portfolio. She invested
all her funds $500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million United
States Dollars) in Gold Bullion with a trusted Gold Ore Mining
Company in Texas USA in June, 2007 and was issued a bond for
same value that is backed by a Gold Delivery Certificate of
833,334 Troy Ounces of Gold. Such Gold as of today has a
Current Spot Price of +/- $1 billion USD. The Gold Certificate
and the Bond she deposited as a trading instrument with her
bank on agreed yielding interests annually. She showed me
copy’s of the Bond and the Certificate issued by the Gold Firm
and also copies of proof of acceptance/deposit of the
instrument with her bank here in Bahamas which I have verified
to be true. She has wished to donate this fund to an
organization or good person that has fear of GOD that will
honestly utilizes this money in accordance to her wishes and
desires.

She quote; “I want an organization or good person irrespective
of religious that will use this funds to help the orphans,
widows, establishing churches and mosques (for propagating the
words of GOD) and building a charity foundation for helping the
needy like people affected by natural disasters anywhere around
the world” so she has said, and she made this decision because
she does not have any child that will inherit this money.
Moreover, her husband relatives are pagans and are of a
questionable characters, and not worthy of this inheritance as
she has informed me.

Therefore if you are honest and God fearing irrespective of
your religion and believing that you can help her execute her
wishes and desires as she has stated, please kindly indicate
your interest by a return email clearly stating your acceptance
and loyalty to her offer, which would motivate her to introduce
you directly to her bank as the beneficiary receivership of the
funds. She promised to reward 10% of the total sum to the
participant of this great assignment.

Please note that I am only assisting to get this email across
to you as she has instructed me to do. I am a Christian and I
expect no monetary reward for my assistance as my religion
forbids that. As soon as I receive your reply indicating your
interest, I shall communicate with her and we shall get back to
you with details. There would be no telephone communications
with her directly because she hardly speaks out, but in any
cases you can talk with me if it becomes very necessary. I can
provide you with her photograph in the intensive care unit so
as to enable you understand her situation the more. She really
deserves prayers. Please kindly remember her in your prayers
even if you cannot help her in her projects.

Any delay in your reply may prompt me to continue search for
another person for this same purpose.

We look forward to your quick reply.

God Bless,

Mrs. Emily Osadebay.
For the patient





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