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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: <magretanice@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Array: ;
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:20:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear


My dear,
































I emailed you and up till now haven’t receive any response from you, I decided to resend it again.











































I don't know how my generosity offer may sound to you, especially as it










comes from a stranger, I am contacting you through a Philippine academic magazine directory
which I picked here in my hospital sick bed, So that it will not look
so strange to you where and how I got your email. My name is Mrs Magreta
Nice, I married to Mr. Nice Kwom who was a Cocoa and Gold merchant in
Ivory Coast for 21 years before he died on second november 2007, we were
married for eleven years without a child, He died after a brief illness
that lasted for only four days.











































Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a Child outside my
matrimonial home, when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of
One million Five hundred thousand United State Dollars. ($1.500,000USD)
in one of the leading bank here in Ivory Coast . My doctor told me on
Monday that I should start looking for whom to will my properties due to
my Cancer and Stroke sickness, he made it clear to me that he is not
going to guarantee my life in this surgery.
































I
will like to hand you over this fund and my properties as a donation to
help disease affected and poor street Philippine children or to
establish a manufacturing company in Philippine to create job
opportunity for jobless people as I
cant invest it here in Ivory Coast due to recent bloody political crisis
here which has not been controlled, I want to hand over this fund to
you as it was my vow to establish charity project before I leave the
world. I took this decision because I don't have any Child that will
inherit this fund, and my husband relatives have seized all his
investments due to that I don't have a Child,
































I
don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my
condition and I don't want anybody to know about this project, as soon
as you response to this message I will inform the bank for immediate
transfer of this fund to your personal bank account for this project, I
will offer you 20 percent of the total fund for any expenses that may
occur during this charity work, and I want you to always pray for me for
my up coming surgery,
































Yours Sister In the Lord,





















Ms Magreta.

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