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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: Amina Hassan <hassanamina94@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:15:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: good day


(Dear truly Beloved )

I
am divinely touched to offer my fortune to less privilege through you
for charity work. i have searched through the internet before i came
across your profile .
I hope and believe that you would give a listening ears to my cry.
I
am a widow and childless, and as a result of my present situation, I
have nothing else in mind other than to help the poor according to God's
direction and wishes.
By special grace of God I reached you by email
because I can not speak to your understanding on telephone due to my
sickness. These is why i have sought for someone who has the fear of
God.

I am suffering from esophageal cancer for years now and have
undergone series of cancer treatments but no avail. Recently as human
as my doctor is, he declared that I will
not last forth coming month( But God has the final Say).
Just as a
seed of faith Therefore I will offer you $8,500,000.00 US to take care
of less privilege with heartfelt love of God and humanity. I decided to
hand you over this money so that you will conduct vastly a charity work
and dispense the money to the glory of God. I have shorter days to live,
therefore I have portioned 30% of the total money for your personal use
while 70% of the money will go to the charity work.

As soon as I
receive your reply I shall give more information about the money and
the address of the security company were the money was deposited and
will also instruct them for the release of the money to you for the
charity work. But I only wished to have assurance that you will utilize
the money as I have instructed herein.
This is my last wish, I grew
up as an Orphan and I don't have anybody as my family member therefore I
would not like any thing to jeopardize the
charity project as my last wish.

Please remember my situation in your daily prayers.
Hoping to receive your reply soon.
Mrs.amina hassan

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