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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: Justina Justina <justinajustina17@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 15:58:04 +0100
Subject: Miss Justina Morgan,


You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know
me personally.I am miss Justina Morgan,the only child of Dr.George
Morgan,my father and my mother was murdered by my father's brother in
our country the Kingdom of Swaziland because he wanted to take
possession of my fathers Farm land.I am writing from (Senegalaise) where i currently based because my father's brother wanted to kill me as
well,Before the death of my father,he deposit the sum of (US$3.9M) Three million,nine hundred thousand United States dollars in a Finance Firm.


This
money was initially meant to purchase new machines and chemicals for
the farms and also to establish a new farm  in the Kenya.The farm land
problem came when my father sacked his brother in his farm as his
manager and introduced a new manager,This resulted a very big problem
between my father and his brother,so to say.

In
fact,a lot of my father's workers were killed in the farm land and many
ran away as my father has at about 2,000 workers in his farm and I have
consulted they finance firm about my father money also to transfer the
money out of their custody to any of my foreign partner abroad since I
cannot handle the money and I want to go back to my study as I did not
finished my school ,

I know
that you are a good person with good heart and you can help me
out.Please email me and Let me know your tought toward this matter to
enable us proceed on it.

Regards,

Miss Justina Morgan,

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