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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Georgina Hope Rinehart" <infogina@executivemail.co.za>
Reply-To: rinehartgeorginahope@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:53:26 +0700
Subject: Humanitarian

Dear Partner and friend,

Thanks for your Interest. I must say my spirit has been lifted since I found
your contact email from the ministry of commerce and secured department which
makes me feel and trust your kind of personality to assist me with this
humanitarian project. You wont be able to know the number of lives we can
impact with this project. But I think we need to get to know ourselves better
before we proceed further on this project. Here are some information about me.

You can check on this Wikipedia page to get a proper understanding of me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart

I am writing this mail to you with heavy sorrow in my heart, My name is Gina
Rinehart, a great citizen of Australia, born in Perth, Western Australia, in
February 1954. I am a 58-year-old widow and the chair person of Hope Rinehart
of Hancock Prospecting Property Limited(HPPL), a citizen of Australia.
I am worth an estimated 22.02 billion Australian dollars which ranks me as the
Richest person in Australia and the Richest woman in the world.with a weight
problem , a persecution complex and I am contacting you because I don’t have
any other option than to tell you as I know I won't survive for long and I was
touched to open up to you about my project worth ($10,000,000,000.00) Ten
Billion Dollars which I intend to use for charity any where in this world.

Life has given me my own share of its misfortunes.I have been married twice,
divorced the first and the second died few years into the marriage. I have
four kids who have engaged me in legal battles over the years over trusteeship
of my fathers trust-fund. but the greatest of my woes is that I am suffering
from a weight problem that has affected my heart and my doctors say I have a
very short time to live.

I do not want to leave my enormous wealth behind for my wayward kids, hence I
want to use part of my wealth for charity, the others I have willed to my
loyal staffs. This fund is an estimated ($10,000,000,000.00) Ten Billion
Dollars .

I want to establish a foundation with your help to reach out to the less
privilege, orphans and homeless people around the world.
Due to my state of health its only with your cooperation and efforts that this
project can see the light of day. So I use this medium to implore you to do
all you have to make this a reality.

I may not live to see the realization of this project but I have implicit
confidence that you would be able to complete this humanitarian project at all
cost. I shall provide you with an agreement document prepared by my Legal
Counsel for you to sign your own part of the agreement in my next letter as
soon as I get your reply in return.

I would expect same gesture from you so that we can proceed further. Your
details would also be required by my Legal Counsel to prepare cover documents
for this project.

Please reply with the under listed details: FULL NAME, FULL ADDRESS,MOBILE
NUMBER.

Get back to me in the nearest possible time.

As God Bless your Entire home.

Warm Regards.
Mrs. Gina Rinehart

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