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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: Angela Aziz <angel6@madodo.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <angelaaziz@live.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 00:11:40 +0530
Subject: YOUR KIND RESPONSE

Hello

How are you doing? I hope this email that i am sending to you would be reaching you in good health. I want to tell you something very important, i know that you would be of good help to me. And i think i can build trust in you in this too, this is why i am telling you this. Right now am really going through hard and terrible life with my mother.

Actually it happened when i lost my dad, my dad is dead and i am left with my mum. so after the death of my father, his family member came to the house and collected everything my dad left behind for us. and they ask me and my mum to leave the compound and they sold the house, they said it is family property. We could not find them again, months ago my mum showed me some documents which my dad use to deposit $15 Million US dollars in a Bank here in India and he use my name as the next of kin to the funds.

So when my mum show to me the documents, i was so happy so my mum and i traveled to India, When we get to the bank and we presented all the legal documents that was given to my father at the time of depositing the fund with the bank, we were told that the money is still with the bank as at then, but they cannot release the money to us here in India, because my dad went into an agreement with them at the time of depositing the fund that the fund should be transferred on express transfer or they can be delivered to any country, to leave India. I never knew my dad was planning of opening a company abroad.

On our way out of the bank, one of the staff of the bank advice us to look for a trust worthy foreign partner to help us receive the money from the bank, we are now looking for a foreign beneficiary, i found your contact in a business dairy, i want you to help us, if you can i will direct you to whom to contact for the necessary procedure and he will tell you the benefit you will get if you stand as the foreign beneficiary, as they would not want me to discuss that with you, but i know the percentage because it was in my late father's agreement, also i will want to get a mail from you, so that i and my mum can come over to your country and meet you so we can start a better and happy life again.

please write back and tell me you are interested. Please i know you can help me and my mum because we are passing through hard moments here in India.


>From Angela Aziz

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