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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Elizabeth C. Denis." <mrslinda_hans@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Elizabeth C. Denis." <ad.cheng@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 04:11:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings!


Hello my Friend.

Greetings!

I have the privilege to write you at this moment, as been requested to contact you for help assistance in investment project which i will like you to handle for one of our bank customer, A SYRIAN citizen, He was hospitalized in FRANCE due to accidental Bomb explosion of poisonous blast that affect his Head to brain cancer and his legs due to the political crises going on in SYRIAN. Before I continue' I wish to introduce myself to you. I am Mrs. Elizabeth C. Denis a banker by profession, I am currently holding the post Of Assistant Supervisor Manager in one of our bank branch where I worked.  

It took this MAN a lot of time to summon courage from his hospital sick bed and He ask me to email you for truth and trust assistance relationship to invest his money in your Country, due to his health condition at hospital. He recently lost her wife and daughter few months back, which both of his parents were eliminated by rebels. I have the opportunity to write you based on his instructions from hospital, as he ask me from our bank to look for a Trustworthy person who will assist him to receive the sum of $3.750,000.00 (three million seven hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars) into your account that you provide, so that you will help him invest it in CHARITY PROJECT or any stable profitable business in your Country.

He said as soon as the bank transfers the money into your account. You will assist him in buying a living home and to set up the investment on his behalf, until he come out from hospital. I wish to receive your personal assurance that you would not sit on the money when it goes into your account, since he is still in hospital at FRANCE. We are now ready to transfer the money overseas as HE said and that is where you come in and why He requires your assistance. The transfer is risk free on both sides and it will take five (5) bank working days to accomplish.

Can you assure me to be trusted so that I can confide in you?

Please reply urgently.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Denis.

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