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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, 23 Nov 2014 01:06:09 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Donation From Mrs Samira Ahmed.

Donation From Mrs Samira
Ahmed.

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 always around me. Read my message carefully and get back
to me. I am waiting for your response so that I will contact you to the
security company here in Ivory Coast. Please always remember me in your prayers
thanks.

Mrs Samira Ahmed.

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