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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: Nessa Daho <aisha.konee@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.nessadaho@rediffmail.com
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:41:41 +0000
Subject: HELLO

Dearest,

Treat this message with utmost confidential ok.

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never meet
before as you may know am in the Hospital bed, and I am constrained to
sit up and write this message to you purposely because the doctor has
announced that I will be undergoing the surgery by next tomorrow. and ever
since this information occurred to me, my mind never found rest, my heart
is still panting even at this moment, i lost the courage of living again, I
cant even afford to speak with people right now because of fear.

But I believe and pray God to spare my life.
Meanwhile, I want to inform you that my late husband left a contracted sum
of $12.3m USD in a bank here, and as childless couple; we've long planned
to use the money to aid the poor and Build Orphanage homes. But we never
succeeded in embracing such project until my husband died as the payment
was delayed.

Now that I am not sure of my life here, and & no existing biological child
to inherit our properties, I want to entrust this project in your hand
because I don't know if I will ever survive this sickness.I wouldn't want
to go into many details here because I have not energy for long emails. But
I wished to briefly inform you that due to lack of Biological son, after my
husband died, his relatives came up with troubles and confiscated all my
husband properties and even call me a witch.

But God knows that am innocent of all the accusations. And now, am happy
they didn't discover about the fact that my husband handled some contract
with the government of cote d'ivoire which the payment has been delayed
before he died.So after mourning my husband as the custom permits, I took
the paper to the bank but they asked me to waiting for more weeks, which I
waited until Two months ago when the management of the bank call to inform
me that the fund is due to be claimed but I couldn't visit them due to my
health condition.

Now that you are the lucky person in my contact list, I want you to reply
this message and set me up in hope and I will furnish you the necessary
information you need to claim the money from the bank and use it to help
the needy.

You must give me your solemn promise to handle this project in good manner
and fear of God. You must use 70% of this money to build orphanage homes
and help the poor while 30% goes to your purse for your Job well-done.

So, I will want you to reply this message to day so that I will give you
the bank information even before the operation takes place because my heart
is still panting and I fear surviving the sickness.

I believe you will not betray this trust because if you use this money to
help the poor on our name, I and my Husband will find peace wherever our
souls maybe.Please pray that the surgery will be a successful one, and that
I could survive this sickness so we can run this project together.


May the living God bless and keep you
Mrs Nessa Daho

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