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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 Anna Robert -" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.annarobert@myself.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:57:27 +0200
Subject: SHOULD I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU - My beloved Friend?????????

I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU MY BELOVED FRIEND --- My name is Mrs. Anna Robert from Ohio, USA. Suffering from a long time cancer of the breast, in one of the hospital here in Spain. Please I want you to help me distribute my late husband fund, sum of (Four Million Euros Only) 4,000,000.00 Euros only, deposited in one of the bank here in SPAIN before his death. Use this fund to any charity organization, so my name will be remembered in the world as I am dying with in deep pains. According to my doctors they have told me that I may not live for the next few months, and I was told by my account officer that the bank are trying to trade on my fund wish me to die soon, please I want this fund to move out of this country and use of the poor before I die, if you are interested to handle this project to carry out my last wish get back to me with your information to enable me give you the contact of my lawyer here in Spain who will help you out with the transfer pepper work to make the claim.


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