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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.Diana Blair" <mrs.dianablair@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Diana Blair" <mrsdianablair@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 01:19:06 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Re: Reply......





Dear Friend

Greetings in the name of God, pls let this not sound strange to you for my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year, i prayed and got your email id from your countries guest book,

I am  Mrs. Diana Blair, from London I am 58 years old, but we were doing charity busines and charity work here in Republic du Benin before the death of my husband,  I am suffering from
a long time cancer of the lungs which also affected my  mouth, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not 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, was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child , my husband died in a fatal motor accident Before his death we were True Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of (US$10.2million) dollars in the Bank here in Benin where we resided.

Presently, this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote me as the real owner to come forward to reactivate the money  because its has been so long or i should rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive as my benificiary 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 here in Benin  where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs.

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 distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless babies
home. 

I want you as God fearing person, to also use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows,

I will like this to be fulfil before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank officer in charge of the funds.

I will also issue you a letter of authorization that will prove you as the new beneficiary of my fund.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. 

You are requested to send to me the following information to enable me use it to
write a Letter of Authorization on your behalf to that you will send to the bank so that they
will release the money to you as my new next of kin.

NAME: __________SURNAME:__________________SEX: _____ AGE: ______MARITAL:
_______________COUNTRY: CONTACT ADDRESS:
________________________PHONE NO#___________OCCUPATION:_____________


Waiting for your reply

Yours in Christ,


Mrs. Diana Blair

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