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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: "al_jawab200@hotmail.fr" <al_jawab222@yahoo.com.ar>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:32:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Greetings From Mrs. Modinat Abdullahi Jawab,


Greetings From Mrs. Modinat Abdullahi Jawab,





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. Modinat Abdullahi Jawab; I am a dying woman who
has decided to donate what I have for the good work of charity. I am 60
years old woman 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 man kind, all they care is how to rob some money from me and spend
them ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord forgives me all 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 $3.700,000 Three million seven hundred thousand united state
dollars 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 the fact that my husband's relatives are always around
me and trying to see if they can overhear my conversations and my
health status as well.



I wish you all the
best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly,and please use the funds
well and always extend the good work to others. I have informed my
consultant about the ($3.700,000). it is true that I don't know you and
you don't know me, but I have been directed by God to contact you for
this. Thanks and God bless. I will direct you further after hearing from
you.



NB: I will
appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is
accomplished as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my wish. Also
I will be contacting with you only by email as I don't want my husband
relations or anybody to know because they are always around me. Please
do get back to me through my private e-mail here.





Regards,



Mrs. Modinat Abdullahi Jawab,






















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