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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 Andrew Cole" <mrs.andrew.cole@att.net>
Reply-To: andrewmrs.camelia@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 03:34:26 +0800
Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE

My Beloved in God.


Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of almighty God, His richest blessings shall be upon you forever. It is my wish to reach you through this means and I hope you will understand my reason for my decision after reading through my message.


A little about me as you've seen in my profile is I am Mrs.Camelia Andrew,born 20th November 1941 (70 years old) My dear, I am suffering from a long time cancer of the Lungs which also affected my brain, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.


I was brought up from a motherless babies home and was married to my late husband (Mr. Ackerman Andrew) for twenty years without a child My husband "Andrew" died accidentally and since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of 3.7million GBP with a Bank in Malaysia.Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confiscated. Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been under going treatment for cancer of the lungs.


I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice and be distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor, orphanages, widows and the motherless babies home where I come from.I want you be a God fearing person( because I do not want my money to be confiscated and later go into the pockets of some corrupt Government and Bank officials.) I took this decision, before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up.


As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the details to the financial home where I have my account. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will improve you as the new beneficiary of my fund. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. I shall wait at your prayerful reply. Like mentioned in my previous message, friends are made and some are discovered, I hope I will find a Good friend in you?


Yours in His Service,


Mrs.Camelia Andrew

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