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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: Mrs Alice Morgan <kevin_206morgan@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: alice_idri@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:19:40 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Compliments of the day to you!

Compliments of the day to you!
By this e-mail, I do sincerely
apologize for my intrusion of your privacy. However, I have something
serious with great concern to share with you. I believe you can be of
help to advise and handle this issue,in this reason I decided to contact
you with good faith that you will handle this issue sincerely.

I
am Mrs. Alice Idris Morgan, I'm married to Mr.Kevin Idris Morgan.who
worked with Philippines embassy in ABIDJAN for nine years, before he
died in the year 2008. We were both married for eleven years without
children.I decided to contact you to let you know my desire to establish
a charity foundation with some valuable amount of fund that will be
sufficient to build a charity foudation and distribute welafre items to
less privilege people within your community. I inherited the funds from
my late husband (Mr.Kevin Idris Morgan) and I want to will the fund to
charity because of our affection for charity welfare. The Financial
Institution responsible for the deposited fund will load the money into
an Atm/Visa card under a confidential arrangement for success delivery
of the ATM/Visa card to your residential address, office or
Organization. It is my desire to see that this money is invested to any
charity organization of your choice within your community to help
distribute welfare items to charity Organizations, motherless baby’s
home, mosques, churches, Schools and also support destitute aged men and
women.

You can invest part of the charity funds into a reliable
venture or whatever you may have in mind that will be to the benefit of
the less people. I took this decision because I was raised from a
motherless baby home and presently, I'm hospitalized here in Nice,
France where I am undergoing treatment for my up coming throat cancer
surgery operation. I will be waiting for your reply to confirm your
acceptance to this proposition so that I will give you all the relevant
information for the bank to authorize for the release and transfer the
fund to you as my assigned representative for the charity project.

Please help to pray for my health and quick recovery always! I look forward hearing from you urgently Warm regards,
Mrs. Alice Idris Morgan.

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