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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: Erika Sawaji <sawajierika1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: serika1@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:02:41 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Mrs_Erika_Sawaji=2FPlease_read_carefully_and_get_back_?=
=?UTF-8?Q?to_me=E2=80=8F?=

Mrs. Erika Sawaji
Lot 104, Jacques Avenue,
01 B.P. 3691 Co Cody,
Abidjan -Ivory Coast

Greetings My Dearest.

Greetings to you and to your entire family, Dear i have selected your name
among other names due to its Esteeming nature and the recommendations given
to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that i can do business with
and By the recommendation, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this
simple and sincere MISSION. I am Mrs. Erika Sawaji from Australia, A widow
to late mr. Ernest Sawaji of Ivory Coast, Am Suffering from long time
cancer of the breast. My late Husband was a Finance Director in the
Ministry of works and housing before his retirement from service, after his
retirement we went into; Real Estate Business and also Government building
contract. We were married for years without a child, due to my fibroid
problem i hardly move around.

Recently, my doctor told me that I may not last for the next 15 weeks
because the cancer has gotten to a very bad stage. When my husband was
alive he made a deposit of ($12.500.000.00usd) Twelve Million five hundred
thousand United States Dollars, hoping to use the money to expand our
business by buying some construction Machines and equipment before he met
his death. Knowing my condition I have decided to donate this money out for
a charity purposes. Dear, I want to transfer this money to you, I want you
to use atleast 70% of this money to help the orphanages, poor, sick ones in
the hospital, widows, help women with cancer, help in the worship places
then you can take the remaining amount to take care of your home because
every worker deserve its wages.

I honestly pray that this money when transferred to your Country will be
used for the said purpose, because I have come to find out that wealth
acquisition without God is vanity, Dear your religion does not matter to
me, What matter most to me is using this money with the fear of Amighty God,

Please your urgent reply will be highly apreciated

Mrs. Erika Sawaji

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