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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: mwilson4@terra.com
Date:
Subject:

Dearest Beloved,
 
After going through your profile I decided to= contact you for friendship and assistance and distribution of my inheritan= ces have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any Pains so I dec= ided to contact you through this medium. I got your Contact through a perso= nal search via the internet.
 
As you read this, I don't want yo= u to feel sorry for me, because, I Believe everyone will die someday but th= e most important thing here is that I am dying in the Lord.
 
My= name is Mrs.Mary Wilson I am a dying woman who have decided to donate What= I have to you/ church/charity Organizations. I am 54 years old and I was d= iagnosed with oesophageal Cancer for about 7 Years ago and now I cannot hea= r and speak anymore, I am married to Sir Gerald Wilson Owen who worked with= British Judicial Commission in Chelsea England for over a decade and also = worked at the british consulate at Abidjan Cote d Ivoire  before he di= ed on 5th of July in the year 1989. We were married for fifteen years witho= ut a child and he has left me everything he worked for.
 
I have= not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared For anyone= . Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to peop= le and only focus on my self as that was the only thing I Cared for.
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But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life t= han just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believe when= God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a = different way from how I have lived it. Now that I know My time is near I h= ave been touched by God to donate from what I have Inherited from my late h= usband for the good work of God, rather than Allow my relatives to use my h= usband hard earned funds ungodly.
 
Now that my health has deter= iorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I once asked members o= f my family to Close one of my accounts and donate the money, which I have = there to Charity organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money = to themselves.  Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not t= o be contended With what I have left for them. The last of my money which i= s the huge Cash deposit of $3,000,000.00 Three Million United States Dollar= s that I have with Financial Firm in Abidjan Cote D Ivoire.
 
I = will want you to Help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity = organizations And let them know that it is me Mary Wilson that is making th= is Generous donation.
 
I am writing this from my laptop compute= r in my hospital bed where I wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses= you to support and assist me with good heart Please pray that the good Lor= d forgives me my sins. I have asked God to Forgive me and I believe he has = because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less t= han few days. I decided to WILL/donate the money to you for the good work o= f the lord, And also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for= the Assistance of the widows according to (JAMES 1:27).
 
I too= k this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this mone= y and my husband relatives are not inclined to helping poor Persons and I d= o not want my husband's hard earned money to be misused Or spent in the man= ner in which my late husband did not specify.  At the moment I cannot = take any telephone calls right now due to the Fact that I cannot talk or he= ar anymore.
 
I wish you All the best and May the good Lord bles= s you abundantly, and please use The funds well and always extend the good = work to others. please send me your reply to this my private email address = to enable me to give you instruction on what you have to do, mwilson01@terr= a.com
 
Regards,
Mary Wilson Mrs.

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