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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: "Ms Alicia Adora" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alicia.adora45@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:03:34 -0700
Subject: Dear Sir/ Madam......Estimado Señor/ Señora


Dear Sir/Madam

I am Mrs. Alicia Adora from Spain, I am 68 years old, i am suffering from a long time cancer of the breast, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I can't work or do any stressful thing, according to my doctors they have advised me that I may not live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies home,and was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child.

My Husband (Roberto Patrick) died in a fatal motor accident before his death we were true Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $8.3 million dollars wishes, And the best part of it is, the paying bank told me in the letter that they can have the funds released to my approved person that was authorized by me or transferred to his bank account and if then transferred to his or her bank account. Presently, i am using my laptop in the hospital at Australia where I have been undergoing treatment for my sickness. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only more 2 months to live. It is my last wish to see at least 60% of this money is invested/donated to any organization/business of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization, e.g. the poor homes, the motherless babies home where I came from.

What i seek for is a God fearing person like you ,who will carry out my last wishes and before I emailed you today I prayed and the holy spirit gave me the confidence to send you this email. I took this decision, before I rest in peace because my time will soon be up. As soon as I receive your reply I will give you the contact of the paying bank.

All i need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when received by you will be used for the said purpose, I don’t know why the Holy spirit still approved me to email you about this out of few email addresses i have from the internet, yours was the only one that my mind convinced me to.

You can contact me on my email: alicia.adora203@gmail.com

Yours in faithfully,
Mrs. Alicia Adora
E-mail: alicia.adora203@gmail.com

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Estimado Señor / Señora

Soy la señora Alicia Adora desde España , soy 68 años de edad , estoy sufriendo de un cáncer de mucho tiempo de la mama, de toda indicación de mis condiciones es realmente deteriorando y es bastante obvio que no puedo trabajar o hacer cualquier estresante cosa , según mis médicos me han aconsejado que puedo no vivir por los próximos dos meses , esto se debe a la etapa del cáncer ha llegado a una etapa muy mala . Me crié desde unos bebés sin madre en casa , y estaba casada con mi marido durante veinte años sin un niño.

Mi marido ( Roberto Patrick ) murió en un accidente de circulación fatal antes de su muerte éramos verdaderos cristianos . Desde su muerte he decidido no volver a casarse , vendí todas mis pertenencias heredadas y deposité toda la suma de 8,3 millones de dólares desea, y la mejor parte de esto es, el banco pagador me dijo en la carta que se puede disponer de los fondos lanzado a mi persona aprobada que fue autorizado por mí o transferido a su cuenta bancaria , y si luego transferido a su cuenta bancaria. Actualmente, estoy usando mi computadora portátil en el hospital de Australia , donde he estado recibiendo tratamiento para mi enfermedad. He perdido ya que mi capacidad de hablar y mis médicos me han dicho que sólo tengo más 2 meses de vida. Es mi último deseo de que al menos el 60 % de este dinero se invierte / donado a una organización / empresa de su elección y distribuye cada año entre la organización de caridad , por ejemplo, los hogares pobres, el hogar bebés sin madre
donde vengo.

Lo que busco es una persona temerosa de Dios como tú, que llevará a cabo mis últimos deseos y antes de que te mandé hoy oré y el espíritu santo me dio la confianza para enviarle este correo electrónico. Tomé esta decisión , antes de descansar en paz porque mi tiempo pronto se acabaría. Tan pronto como reciba tu contestación te daré el contacto del banco pagador .

Todo lo que necesito de ti es una garantía de confidencialidad que los fondos que reciben por usted serán utilizados para dicho propósito , no sé por qué el Espíritu Santo todavía me aprobó para enviarle por correo electrónico acerca de esto de algunas direcciones de correo electrónico que tengo desde el Internet , el suyo era el único que mi mente me convenció para .

Puede ponerse en contacto conmigo en mi correo electrónico : alicia.adora203@gmail.com

Suyo en fidelidad ,
Sra. Alicia Adora
E- mail: alicia.adora203@gmail.com

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