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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. Christy Walton" <info@christy.com>
Reply-To: mrs.christy_walton00@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:30:01 +0300 (EAT)
Subject: Re:

My Dearest,

Greetings to you my dear beloved, I am writing you this e-mail not to
disturb you but to ask for your assistant based on my personality and my
present condition in life and in particular what I intend doing for
CHARITY.

I am Mrs. Christy Walton a great citizen of United States of America. I
bring to you a proposal which I want you to assist me with. I am worth $
22.5 billion Dollars which rated me as the 2nd Richest Woman in the World.
But as the saying goes, money is not everything. It is painful now to let
you know that I have been suffering from a Heart disease for the past 22
years and just few weeks ago my Doctor told me that I won't survive the
illness. And my Will being with my Lawyer of which my family is aware
about, but nobody is aware of my 40% Bank Worth which is $9,000,000,000
(Nine Billion United State Dollars). I intend to use the $
9,000,000,000.00 for CHARITY. It will surprise you to know that I have not
seen anybody from my family since my condition became critical as they
should probably be of help in this issue. Because I always had this DREAM
for CHARITY and I have always promised myself that I will do this very big
to CHARITY I decided to vie through the internet for a trustworthy person
that would be of help. Can I please trust you to help me give this amount
of money to CHARITY because like my doctor has informed of recent, I have
just 3 Months left to live and probably die. As I write to you now, my
eyes are filled with tears as I await my death.

Please reply me back with your below details to enable us proceed further
and please do keep this confidential.

NAME.............................
AGE.................
ADDRESSES...................
MOBILE:........................
COUNTRY:...................
OCCUPATION...................

God Bless You.
Mrs. Christy Walton
mrs.christy_waton00@hotmail.com





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