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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: elizabeth shoum <elizabethshoum@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 07:09:00 +0100
Subject: From Madam Elizabeth Shoum.

Dear Respected One,

Good day and how are you, i hope all is well with you,

My name is Madam Elizabeth Shoum. A complete citizen of the
Philippines,widow to the late Mr Desmond Shoum who died of ulcer and he has
been buried. My late husband was a serving director of the Agro- exporting
board until his death.

Before his death he had a foreign account here in Cote d ivoire where he
made a deposit of US$6.3 Million Dollars which he deposited for the
purchase of cocoa processing machine and development of another factory
before his untimely death. My main purpose of sending you this mail is
because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this
priority of transfering the money to your account in your country with your
percentage of which we shall discause soon.

In fact, since the death of my husband, his brothers has been seriously
chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they
might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them. They
have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped
there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband,which
I did not because this is where my future and destiny lies upon,

Out of fear of my late husbands family, and when the situation becomes
uncontrollable because o f pressure on me from the family, I decide to look
for a trustworthy person who could assist me to receive this money into his
account for the purpose of future investment.

I cannot invest this money here any long, despite it has been my late
husbands industrial plans.I want you to do me a favour to receive this
funds to a safe account in your country or any safer place as the
beneficiary . I have plans to invest this money in ontinuation with the
investment vision of my late husband, but not in this place again rather in
another country.

Once you receive this money into your account i will becoming to meet you
to invest the money with you, My main purpose of transfring this money is
for establish a charity foundation in your country such as orphanage and
motherless home,by using my late husband Name ( DESMOND SHOUM CHARITY
FOUNDATION ORPHANAGE HOME) in your country. This is my reason for
contacting you.

Please I will like you to send me your Details:
1. Your full name, contact postal address
2. Your phone number.

Once i confirm this I will submit o ffical to the bank as my late husband
foriegn business partner so that they bank will transfer this money into
your account.
Consider my situation as a widow and come to my rescue.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear
from you soon.
All the best,
>From Madam Elizabeth Shoum.
God Bless You.

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