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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.Judith Stauffer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <blessjudithstauffer@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:10:24 -0500
Subject: IN SEARCH OF TRUSTEE.

May the peace of the Lord be unto you, My name is Mrs.Judith Stauffer, an Irish. I am 89 yrs old dying woman
who has decided to donate what I have to charities through you. You may be wondering why I chose you.
But someone has to be chosen. I am old and was diagnosed for cancer recently, After the death of my
husband long ago in a plane crash on Monday the 7th September 1998 GMT 14:22 flying from New York to
Geneva,who had left me everything he worked for.Please see site below for more understanding.


http://www.cnn.com/world/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html



I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to charity through
you for the good work of humanity. I have asked the Lord to forgive me all my sins and I believe he has,
because He is merciful. I will be going in for an operation, and I pray that I survive the operation. I have
decided to Will/Donate the sum of (8.5 Million Dollars)Eight Million Five hundred thousand Dollars to
charities through you for the good work of the Lord, and to help the motherless, less privileged and also for
the assistance of the widows.



Presently, I have informed my consultant about my decision in willing this fund to charity through you. I wish
you all the best and may God bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the
good work to others. If you are interested in carrying out this task, I will inform my consultant.


I know I have never met you but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely. I sincerely know
that a lot has been written about some SCAM coming out of the world, but I assure you that this will never
in any way associated with that as you will be given the right to verify this directly with the Bank were the
funds is presently deposited.

Please reply me via this address: blessjudithstauffer@live.com


PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR,

(1).FULL NAME..........
(2).ADDRESS.............
(3).TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER..........


ON YOUR REPLY, FOR EASY AND IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION WITH MY CONSULTANT.


Yours sincerely,

Mrs.Judith Stauffer

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