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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: "Mrs Elizbert Khalid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.elizbertk@sify.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:04:08 -0800
Subject: Noble Humanitarian Assignment

Complement of the day to you my dear. Do kindly allow me crave your indulgence in introducing myself to you, I go by the name Mrs. Elizbert Khalid, I'm a 59 years old widow diagnosed of colorectal cancer. I was lawfully married to Late Engineer Abdul-Hamid Ghassan Khalid, who naturally died after a brief illness. My husband was quite a loving and hard working person as he was into private engineering practice before his death, but he unfortunately passed away leaving me all he labored for his entire life. Our life together as Husband and wife lasted for thirty years without a child and due to our helpless state of childlessness, my husband and I vowed to uplift the Less-privilege and helpless orphans as he had great passion for persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability or misfortune. I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from our fruitless marriage, which unfortunately never came. Most Recently, my surgeons admitted to the medical fact that I've on ly got limited number of
days to live due to the resurfacing of In anticipation of this tragic and quite unfortunate reality that has befallen a widow like myself, I have decided to make a selfless donation of the entire funds derived from my late husband's vast estates and investments in capital market to you and I want you to use this gift of Good-Will which comes from my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially. Our bank recently estimated the funds to have reached an approximated sum of twelve million great Britain pounds (12,000,000.00). I've therefore taken what I consider the biggest decision of my life, to use this money in touching and affecting the lives of does in dear need of it because that's exactly what I consider true generosity, you give your all, and yet you feel like it cost you absolutely nothing. Give, and it shall be given to you For whatever measure you
deal out to others, it will be dealt I must also have to admit to the fact that my late husband's relatives are bourgeois and never approved of the idea of him getting married to an English woman, and I do not want my husbands hard earned wealth to be misused or invested into ill perceived ventures, so I want to avoid a situation where this money will be spent in an ungodly manner, hence my reason for taking this bold decision. I will die a happier woman when given the full assurance that quite a reasonable share of my late husband's wealth will be used in turning around the life of the needy in our society and I would be most grateful if you would find it in your conscience to help set up and run a charitable home on my behalf. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I can't possibly take any telephone calls in this regard due to my deteriorating state of health. As soon as I get a word of acceptance from you I shall immediately provide you with further instructi ons on how to secure release
the funds from my bank. To commence this noble humanitarian assignment, you are to contact me in my personl email: mrs.elizbertk@sify.com

Kindest Regards,
Mrs. Elizbert Khalid.

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