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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: Joy Ngo <monmotandd@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Joy Ngo <joy.ngo72@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:02:42 +0900 (JST)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?U0VFRCBPRiBGQUlUSChDaGFyaXR5IERvbmF0aW9uKeKAj+KAjw==?=

Dear beloved,

My name is Mrs. Joy Ngo.  addressing this message to you
might sound to you as a surprise, but I want you to know that you where
being chosen amongst various emails for this project, please do accept
it as a blessing from God made possible through a woman with a good and
sincere heart towards the poor. Through these projects millions will be
positively touched, though important, but through God nothing is
impossible. Each day that passes by, I feel no improvement in my health
as I do not know whether I will survive as I have undergone different
surgical operations.Beloved, each day that passes by, I am afraid to
die, but life gives me no choice, but to answer the call; my prayer
each day is to have a place in Heaven. I have suffered a lot as a result
of this incurable sickness!The only and most precious desire and
highest help that I need from
you at this point is to be in constant prayers with me as I believe you
have an open heart and also believe in GOD. I would be so much happy to
see that my funds are properly used to help the poor orphans, less
privileged etc before leaving this world as this will be a great relieve
for me and my soul. This is a great and huge responsibility to handle,
but I do pray that God will be with you and give you strength and might
to handle these projects, hence I am giving you these sum ($3,250,000)
Three million, two hundred & fifty thousand USD, for you to handle
it as it is yours with the sole and unique interest of helping the most
less privileged. You will also be highly recompensed!Many a times, I
kept asking myself the need of being alive? What are
the purposes of my existing in this world? I lived inutile; I do not
have a child as a result of my sterility, but my only source of joy will
be accomplished by reading from you and hearing that you also have a
sincere heart towards the orphans and ready to handle these projects!I
am presently hospitalized as a result of my poor health: I will be
very happy to read from you and also put you in contact with the
institution in charge of the transaction in order to start all necessary
procedures so as to enable you to have possession of my funds as soon
as possible before my next surgical operations.I looking forward to
hearing from you and God bless you

Yours Faithful
Mrs Joy Ngo

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