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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 Jane Awani" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jane.awani@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:29:55 -0400
Subject: RE:

My Dear Beloved,
Let me  inform you, I got your email address from my husband diary with me and decided to mail  you for a permission. My husband Engr. P.Awani(who worked as an expatriate in Nigeria) and our  only child Master O. Awani all died in Dana Air crash in Lagos on the 3rd  June,2012. My husband  and I were married for many years without any child before we are blessed with Awani Jr and my  husband was the only surviving child of his parents. see more:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/5413-153-passengers-dead-in-dana-air-crash-in- lagos.html#sthash.DKoFJeW3.dpuf
 
Am Mrs Jane Awani, 59 years old and I am presently in a hospital since 2012 where I have been  undergoing treatment for Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and Parkinson diseases , were i got the  shock of my life/sad news of my husband and son death in 2012 through my Doctors and later the  CNN cable news. You could imagine how terreble my situation have been since then.
 
My late husband when alive deposited the sum of $18.7M (Eighteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand  U.S. Dollars) with a Bank and the Bank management wrote me last month as the next of  kin/beneficiary to come forward and receive my late husband money deposited with the bank or  issue a letter of authority to someone closer to me, to receive the fund on my behalf. Am so  confused and worried based on my bed-ridding ill-health, going through with  the daily  chemotherapy and radiology treatments and having lost the ability to talk and having  been
told by my doctors that I have only a few months to live. So I have decided before my God that  the best thing to do to glorify my God is to use the money for charity purposes and planting of  new churches through you.
 
All i want is a person who has the fear of God and trustworthy, whom I can make the beneficiary  of my late husband's fund deposited with the bank, so that the person can get the money on  my  behalf as my authorized next of kin and utilize 60% of this money to fund churches, orphanages  and widows around the world.
 
Please assure me confidently that you will act accordingly as stated herein and keep this  contact confidential  till such a time this fund gets to your custody. This is to ensure that  nothing jeopardizes my last wish on Earth through you.
 
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact details of the bank. I will
also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund.
 
Your urgent reply needed via email: jane.awani@yahoo.com.ph before i passed on.
 
God bless you and your family. Please do always pray for me.
 
Yours Sister in the Lord,
Mrs Jane Awani

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