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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: Alice Idris <alice_102idris@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: alice_idri@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 03:38:54 +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 foundation and distribute welfare
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, here London where I am undergoing treatment for my
upcoming 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 Mordan.

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