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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: "Mrs Louis Morgan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <emorganlouise@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:20:39 +0100
Subject: Your Services Is Urgently Needed By Our Client


Sir

I am glad to have finally found your contact address through my late husband I.B.C.File.My name is Mrs Louis Morgan from Zimbabwe and wife of late Lawrence Morgan a well known farmer and diamond merchant in Zimbabwe. My husband died of hearth attack after the seizure of all his life times investments in Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe and among the things seized, were his farm lands and money in his various accounts here in Zimbabwe. And if not for the mercy of God, my late husband lost nearly all to the Government of Robert Mogarbe but Thank God he was able to quickly transfer a good sum of money out of Zimbabwe through deplomatic channel means to one of the Banks outside my country (Zimbabwe) before his death. The money is contained in two treasury boxes and the bank was made to understand that the money belong to my late husband's customer in your country who will later contact them for onward transfer of the money to his account.

Further to this as a matter of importance, please my reason of contacting you, is that I am honestly in need of your assistance to help me and my children transfer the money to your country by standing as my late husband's business partner to whom the money is to be transfered to. And please note that the fund is for onward investment in your country for my children upbringing as we are finding a way to leave this country to settle down there in your country and continue our lives before we loose our lives and this money to President Mugabe's Government.

As a matter of importance, please note that I will be sending you the contact information of the bank where the fund is deposited to enable you confirm the fund and also discuss with the Bank Manager as he said he will like to discuss with you to enable him advise you on how the fund will be transferred to avoid much taxes and
protocols. And after the transferring of the fund to your account, I have resolved to compensate you with 30% of the total fund and you are also entitled to deduct any expenses incured by you during the period of the transfering of this fund to your account. After taken away your share and every expenses involved if any, I will like
you to use part of the remaining fund to buy a good living home for me and my children in any good city in your country and also assist us establish a good business or buy a good company for us if there is anyone available for sale, for the upkeep of my children as we continue our lives there. I will also like you to be part of the company management because I rely on you to operate the company/business since I dont know much about your country's system of company operation and management. So you will be there for us to supervise the management of the business and also take your profit percentage from the company's profit as we may agree.

I will in my next email to you, send you copy of my photograph, national id and certificate of deposit as issued by the bank when the fund was deposited with them. Also to be sent to you for your review, is sample copy of the working agreement which I will like us to sign for the protection of our various interest.

Kindly reply to this email today as I wait to give you more details for immediate action

Thanks and God Bless You

Mrs Louis Morgan

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