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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.Joyce L.Moyo" <mskab@live.com>
Reply-To: mrs_joycelee@live.com
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:16:09 -0300
Subject: Greetings,



Warmth Greetings My Dear,

Please,permit me to introduce this transaction to you and also forgive
me if my
message do not meet up with your standard of living.You should please consider
the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not
known me before.

I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are
many such possibilities these days, as I would like to
introduce myself as Mrs.Joyce L.Moyo,widow to Late Dr.Agueda Rodrisguez,formal
Consular of the Spanish Embassy in Republic Du Benin.

I was recently diagnose of Cancer of the Pelvic and I am writing to
you now from
my sick bed here in the hospital at the Faith Medical Center Benin Republic
where I am receiving treatment for my illness.

There is this sum of $6.5M (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollar)which my
husband Deposited with a Finance Firm n the form of a Diplomatic Consignment,
which was supposed to be moved out of the Country before my late Husband's
death.Note that this sum was carefully packaged in Raw Cash and
registered with
the Finance Firm as "Diplomatic Content", thereby meaning the Finance
Firm does
not know the actual content of the trunk Box under their custody.

With my health condition and for the fact that my husband and I have no child
till this time,I have decided to contact you so that I will pass the right of
ownership of the trunk box to you. I will send to you the documents
that covers
the Consignment with the Finance Firm which You will use to apply to them in
order to have the Consignment Cleared from their vault and delivered to you in
your Country of choice.

Meanwhile, know that this will be on the condition that the Funds will be
invested into a very lucrative business that will be great in
maximizing profit
i.e, Communication Companies, Stock Market Investment, Oil
Business/Investment,
depends on the decision which you as the appointed overseer, sees best and
simple for you to handle.

The investments as I have explained to you is expected be on a Long Run and
through the profits which you will be making out of it, you will be able to
reach out to the less privileged ones in the Society for assistance,
which is in
fulfillment of the last request of my late husband: that a substantial part of
the fund be used to carter for the less privileged people.

Therefore, I will want you to please get back to me is this condition is
acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and
contact information's so that I will have the trust to pass the right
of next of
kin to you, in order to enable you contact the Finance Firm for the claim and
Clearing of the Funds from their Vault.

Get back to me with the following information.

1.your name:
2.your phone:
3.date of birth:
4.sex:
5.profession:
6.address:

Note: upon the receipt of your response, I will provide you with all the Legal
Documents covering the trunk Box to help you in the claim and clearing
of the Funds.

I look forward to your immediate response.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs.Joyce L.Moyo.

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