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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. Camilla Andreas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <graceandprotection@ymail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 22:57:46 +0300
Subject: My Freewill Offer

Am Camilla Andreas (from Denmark) am 79 years old, am suffering from cancer of the liver because of the level of the cancer and what it has done to me i cannot work or do any stressful thing any longer,my doctors recently said that i may not live for the next 60days, because the cancer stage has gone very bad stage. after much thinking i came to the conclusion to donate my wealth and inheritance out for charity work since i don't have any child to inherit them and secondly i was brought up from a motherless babies home and was married to my late husband for Thirty-one years without a child. My Husband died in a explosion that occurred in their company because he was geologist. The shock of his death contributed in my present health condition because he was all i have,we were true Christians. Since his death i decided not to re-marry. Presently am using my laptop in the hospital where i have been undergoing treatment,i sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $6.5Million dollars with a Ba
It is my last wish to see at least 80% of this money is willed/ donated to any organization /business of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization, e.g. the poor homes, the motherless babies home where I came from, the deaf homes, and churches etc and 20% will be for your Well doing.
All i seek for is a God fearing person like you ,who will carry out my last wishes and before, i took this decision before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up. As soon as i receive your reply i will give you the contact of  the Bank.
Please send me your Full name, full Address,Age, Occupation and Phone no.
All i need from you is your assurance that the funds when received by you will be used for the said purpose, Nowadays there are so much scams going on in the internet and it is difficult to trust anyone, but i don’t know why my spirit push me to email you about this project out of all the email addresses i saw in the internet yours was the only one that my mind convinced me to contact.
Waiting for your reply.
Yours in Christ
Camilla Andreas.
Please do not mind my English because English woman.

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