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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: "Dorothy Height" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dorothyirheight@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 03:38:11 +0530
Subject: USE FOR PHILANTHROPIC TRUST!

New Page 1

My dear how are you today,
Please let this not sound strange to you for my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year. i really prayed and got your email id from your country guestbook.

Am Dorothy Irene Height (Dr) from Denmark, 89 yrs of age, a widow with no child with my late husband who died ten Years ago. Am suffering from long time cancer of breast which has affected my lung/liver, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next one and half months unless there is a divine intervention because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.

I was brought up from a motherless babies home and was married to my late husband. Before his death we were true believers. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited part into my account with B-Credit Union Uk.

Presently, the management of my bank just wrote me and requested that I should come forward to receive the money because of the unserviceable status of the Account but when they received my ill health doctor report , they advised me to issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf to avoid the Fund being confiscated as stipulated by British Banks regulation time frame.

As I write to you now from my laptop here in hospital as am undergoing treatment. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested in Charity and Humanitarian cause especially for Cancer patients, Orphanages home where i was raised and you keep part of the principal amount to support yourself.

I crave your indulgence as someone who knows the pains which less-privileged children in our society undergoes and plead with you to take this Humanitarian cause upon yourself and use this fund for the above mentioned purposes, I took this painstaking decision in other to help humanity in my little capacity before i rest in peace in the bosom of Lord. According to my physicians my time will soon be up.

I needs your following information through my email: dorothyheight@outlook.com  so to enables me prepare the Letter of Authorization in your name which I shall send to my bank and copy to you .
(1) Your full names: ===================================
(2) Personal or official contact address:===============================
(3) Home or Office phone#:============Cell phone#:==========Fax#:=======
(4) Your Age: =============== (5) Occupation:===========================
(6) Sex/Marital status:========================
(7) Private E-mail Address: ========================
Awaiting your kind response while craving your appreciation of my predicament.
Yours sister ,
Mrs Dorothy. I. H
 

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