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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: Mrs Constance Austin <m_kone011@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Mrs Constance Austin <constance.austin071949@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:04:59 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello.


I know you will be surprise
receiving this letter from me and transaction of this magnitude will
make any one get worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day because this is a great favor from Father Almighty
to you. With due respect, let me start by first introducing myself
properly to you. I am Mrs. AUSTIN, I am not feel fine now and My doctor
just informed me that my days are numbered because of my health will
increasingly degrading. I have a large sum of money that I want to make
available to you; so you can use it for good will.

If I chose to
contact you is because, I wish that this operation is done in utmost
discretion without too much publicity because of my previous activities.
I wish that you agree to serve legal administrator (beneficiary) and
perform an action program by helping the elderly and children in
difficult circumstances.

My marital status is such that I'm
single because I lost my husband for over 15 years now and unfortunately
we did not have a child together, I have no one to whom to leave my
legacy to, this is the reason while I wanted to donation this money to
you and your organization. I will be so graceful in order to help the
poor; I am donating this sum of THREE MILLION HUNDRED US DOLLARS
($3.000,000) to help you establish a charitable foundation in my memory
so that the grace of God be with me to my final resting place for me to
receive an honorable place with the Lord our father.

Have no
fear, I am contacting you because I prayed for several nights for the
Lord Jesus Christ, can give me the contact of a trusted person to whom I
could entrust this matter. When I was still working, I was a woman of
Business and it allowed me to touch many areas of business, some of
which have not been legal. Know that you can keep half this money to
yourself and the rest half will be used to create a charitable
foundation in my memory and a federation of fight against cancer and
also has build orphanages for abandoned children and the poor.

The
project I wish intend to achieve with this fund is to base on
commandment of Jesus Christ in Mathew 28: 18, 19 by opening a charitable
foundation to help the elderly, children in difficult circumstances and
the poor.

The Bible states that everything in his time and it's
time for you to receive these funds for the works of the eternal. Ask
and ye shall receive, seek and you will find, knock and it shall be
opened unto you (Matthew 7:7). I will like to have confirmation of your
details such as: (Name, address, telephone, Occupation, marital status)
and know what project you intend to achieve with these funds? I count on
your goodwill and especially the proper use of these funds and I am
waiting for your urgent respond, to enable me to put you in contact with
my bank manager for immediately transfer of this money into your
nominated account.

Please forgive me if these proposals offend
your moral ethics. I thank you so much in advance for your kind
understanding to help, as I look forward to hear from you soon.


Remain blessed
Constance Austin
constance.austin071949@hotmail.com

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