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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: "Victoria Jackson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <vj_1960@aol.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:26:31 +0100
Subject: Compliments of the day to you

Compliments of the day to you

My names are Victoria Jackson a rich deaf and dumb British lady and I wish to transfer the total sum of US$18.5M (Eighteen Million ,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars Only ) that l inherited from my family business (real estate, farming, manufacturing and shipping) in to your bank account for you to distribute to Deaf & Dumb organizations in your country because since I lost both my father and mother l was virtually left alone in this world with no any other relatives and in addition to my deafness and dumbness have just been diagnose as having liver and heart problems and l have been kept in an isolated intensive care unit and cut off from the outside world except for my doctors that take care of me and they occasionally allow me a few period to have access to my PC hence l was able to get in touch with you. l shall soon be going for another very comprehensive operation and my doctors have informed me that my chances of making it is 5!
0/50.

Before the sudden death of my beloved parents in a private hospital here in UK, they told me to turn around the fortune they left behind for me which i did perfectly well by managing and controlling all the family businesses but now that my health is failing me and l am likely to die from the liver and heart diseases anytime soon according to my doctors, l have therefore decided to donate a substantial part of the funds through you to the deaf and dumb in your society to prevent my bank from freezing the funds because l have no next of kin.

l look forward to your prompt reply on this matter because l shall be undergoing another operation within the week and l want you to pray for me to make it.

l want you to assist me receive this funds and distribute 70% of the funds to the deaf and dumb in your society and keep 30% to yourself for your time and efforts.

lf you are interested, the next step is for you to send me your full names, address, age and occupation.

As soon as you send your data as requested, l shall immediately forward them to my lawyer to commence the preparation of all the relevant documents that will transfer the beneficiary status of this funds to you and it is with this documents my bank will be able to release all the funds to you. You have nothing to worry about as l have already paid my lawyer the associated legal fees to properly advise and guide you on what to do, it's 100% risk free.
l anxiously look forward to hear from you ASAP.

Yours faithfully,
Victoria Jackson.

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