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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: Justina Morgan <justinajustina19@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 00:21:12 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Miss Justina Morgan and Mrs Elizabeth Morgan


You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not
know me personally. I am miss justina morgan,the only child of Dr.
George Morgan,who was recently murdered in the land dispute in
Zimbabwe.I am writing from ( The Senegal ) where I am currently based as asylum seeker.Before the death of my father,he took me to Senegal,to
deposit the sum of (US$3.9M) Three million,nine hundred thousand United
States dollars in a  Finance Firm. Maybe he for-saw the looming danger
in Zimbabwe .This money was initially meant to purchase new machines and chemicals for the farms and also to establish a new farm in
Swaziland.The land problem came when the government of Zimbabwe under
the leadership of President Robert Mugabe,introduced a new land
decree/act that, affected a lot of Rich white farmers and some few blacks.This resulted to mob action and killings by Zimbabwe war Veterans and some Lunatics in the society, so to say.In
fact,a lot of people were killed in the land reform act,including my
father.It is against this back-ground that I consulted with my Mother to transfer this money out of Senegal to a foreign account since we are
now staying in senegal and the Senegal law,forbids (asylum seekers) to
have such money in an account.


 I am therefore saddled with the
responsibility by my Mother to seek for a genuine person with a foreign
account to handle this transaction.We faced with dilemma of investing
this amount of money in the Senegal because; We will not like to go
through the same experience in future since both countries have similar
history.Moreover,the Senegal foreign exchange does not allow such
investment from asylum seekers.If you accept to assist us,You may go
into partnership with us in any business you decide
to invest the money on,

Regards,

Miss Justina Morgan and Mrs Elizabeth Morgan

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