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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: "Miss Samantha Lawiyah" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <misssamantha.lawiya@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:40:06 +0700
Subject: LETTER OF INTENT

Dear Friend
Greetings to you i hope this email find you in good health Please kindly take your time to understand the content of this email.
I am Miss Samantha Lawiyah, The daughter of Late Datuk Sosilawati Lawiyah. Please my contact to you is purely discreet and you have to maintained, promise me that you will keep everything under discreet.
I am going to tell you here confidential after reading this email. I don't really like to disclose to people about my family or who i am especially people from my country.
The reason why i contacting you is because you are outside my Country. This terrible incident that happened some time ago in my life that if i take a flash back it always come to my mind to commit suicide but i still believe that God will help me to avenge the killers of my mum Datuk Sosilawati Lawiyah. My mum before her death a cosmetics queen here in Malaysia who was popular. She was
Murdered by a Lawyer named, Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim and her brothers on a process to purchase a land who allegedly masterminded her killing
Because of RM4 Million Malaysia Ringgit which equivalent to USD should be around $1,400,000USD? Before her death i always close to her and she does not hide anything from me being her daughter she told me of a land deal worth RM4 Million that she will be in Banting here in Malaysia for the next three days to finish the deal with the Lawyer and her brothers. That was the last day i set my eyes on her and the incident that lead her disappearance for a while which warrant to investigations. After police search they find out that she was murdered and her body burnt before the ashes were strewn in a river near Ladang Gadong in Tanjung Sepat Malaysia, near Morib by the Lawyer and her brothers.

I am contacting you now for assistance in claiming RM12.4 Million which is currently lodged with a finance bank here in Malaysia after her death.
I want you to stand as next of kin to the fund. I will anticipate and appreciate your immediate acceptance to help me. I will update you in furtherance on how to get the money out from here as the beneficiary of the fund and i will arrange all documents to be in your name as the next of Kin. All Arrangement and process of the change of beneficiary will be arranged by a pronounced lawyer here in Malaysia before you will come for the claims.
After the money is safe in your country we can now discuss about the future and what we will invest with the fund or how much i will pay you in return to show my appreciations because i will also need your help on investing the fund wisely in your Country. As am writing to you now am in tears for my life because threatened by the members of my family and the Lawyers Gangs, they all want me dead because of the money. That was why i need a foreigner whom i can trust so that i will leave this country as soon as possible. And I believe that you are the only one who is going to dry my tears and make me happy once again because since my Mum left, i have been in deep pain, Hope i can rely on you my Dear.

Hope to hear from you as soon as possible.

Sincerely Yours,
Samantha.
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