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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. Samira Ahmed." <tancyywd2006@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Samira Ahmed." <samiraahmed449@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 23:38:53 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Donation From Mrs Samira Ahmed.

Greetings to you. My name is Samira Ahmed, from Kuwait
married to Mr Josh Ahmed. Who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast before
he died in the year 2007. When i got married to my husband we were living
happily without problems. I never knew that however joyful life may be it must
have it's tempting hours, my husband loves me so much and he cares for me as
the bone of his bone and the flesh of his flesh. Great love was existing
between us we hardly has problems, but four years later i couldn't conceive the
members of my husband family assemble together and found occasion against me. Which
was not giving birth to a child.

My husband mother became more interested in this case she was
very angry and mad with me she does not want to set her eyes on me. Whenever
you see a woman looking desperately for the fruit of the womb pity her. In the
bible God instructed husband to love their wives my husband acted in obedience
to God's command despite he’s a Muslim but his people saw God's instructions as
foolishness not knowing that the foolishness of God is wiser than men. It was a
trialsome and traumatic experience i don't wish any child of God to experience
it.

More deep i think every day about my situation asking why i
should be in this problem and how long this difficult times will last, i didn't
know that i have been under a curse my step mother laid a curse on me that i
will not conceive all the days of my life. This is a woman i love so much not
knowing she was the one responsible for all that i’ve been passing through. Her
reason for this was that i am a Christian and i married before her daughters. By
the time we discover why we have be in this problem our marriage was getting to
fifteen years without child.

Suddenly i lost my husband in the year 2007. when my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of 2.3 million US dollars to the
security company in ivory coast, recently i have serious sickness which is
cancer problem i decided to donate this fund to the orphans and widows in the
church since i have known child, psalms 41vs1 blessed is he that considerate
the poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. Psalms 125vs4 do good o
Lord unto those that be good.

Moreover my husband relatives are pagans i don't want them to
know about this development, i don't need any telephone communication because
of my health, and my husband relatives was around me always. Get back to me and
i will contact you to the security company here in Ivory Coast. Please always
remember me in your prayer. For the joy of the Lord is my strength, nehemiah
8vs10. Try understand what i'm passing through and the reason why i want to
donate my fund.
Remain bless in the Lord.
Mrs Samira Ahmed.

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