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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 Bertha Duncan <berthaduncan93@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: berthaduncan@ymail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:17:49 -0600
Subject: Urgent Project



Greetings from Mrs. Bertha Duncan,

After going through your information over the internet i decided to
contact you
for friendship and assistance for distribution of my inheritance towards
charity. My name is Mrs. Bertha Duncan; I am a dying woman who has decided to
donate what I have for the good work of charity. I am 66 years old and I was
diagnosed for breast cancer for about 2 years now.

I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late
husband to you for the good work of God, rather than allow my husband evil
relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.

They don't care about mankind, all they care is how to rob some money from me
and spend them ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord forgives me my sins. I
have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has because He is a
merciful God.
I will be going in for a surgery soon and I want to make sure that I make this
donation before undergoing my surgery.

I decided to donate the sum of $5,000,000.00 (Five Million United
State Dollars
Only) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the
motherless and
less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows and unfortunate
mothers. At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due
to my ill
health status and also for the fact that my husband's relatives are always
around me and trying to see if they can overhear my conversations.

Thanks and God bless. I will give you more details as soon as I hear from you.

Reply me through my private email: berthaduncan@ymail.com

With love and Peace of God,

Mrs. Bertha Duncan

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