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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: Maria Schaeffler <mrsmariaschaeffler6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsmariaschaeffler7@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Greatting From Mrs Maria


Greeting to you

I am in need of your assistance, I want to make a donation to the poor and needy through you. I’m a German business woman dealing with gold exportation in Burkina Faso and my husband is now late who started the business with me Dr. Adolf Merckle aged 74 years old,who committed suicide on January 6th 2009 after his business empire ran into trouble in the global economic financial crisis.Please refer to the news website below to read more about my late husband.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7814257.stm


I have since lost my ability to talk and my Doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. Before I became ill, I kept USD$ 19.5 Million in a finance company in African i have decided to hand over the sum of US$19.5 Nineteen million five hundred thousand dollars that I have in my account to you for the help of orphanage homes/the needy once in your location to fulfill my wish on earth.You may be wondering why I chose you. But someone lucky has to be chosen according the the revelation I had after my prayers today.But before handing over my data’s to you, Having known my condition i decided to hand you over this money and the gold to take care of the less-privileged people, you will utilize this money the way i am going to instruct herein. i want you to take 30 percent of the total money for your personal use while 70% of the money will go to charity" people in the street and helping the orphanage.


Now that it is clear that i will not survive this sickness, I have decided that i must give my wealth to the poor and needy to demonstrate my humanitarian service to humanity.I will appreciate Mostly that the fund be donated to motherless Babies, widows and hurricane victims all over the world.I will be going treatment this month

Hoping to receive your reply

Mrs Maria Schaeffler

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