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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: Anna Maria Picareli <annamariapicareli@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Anna Maria Picareli <mrsanna1935@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:51:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU TODAY?


Thanks for your respond,

I am Mrs. Anna Maria Picarelli from Italy and I am Married To MR
ANDREW PICARELLI he worked with the ITALIAN EMBASSY in Togo West
Africa before He died in the year 2006. I am happy to be associated
with someone like you and I pray that God Almighty will give you the
strength and wisdom to carry out this noble task. I wish to use this
opportunity to inform you that my proposal for you is about the sum of     
$10.5 million USD which was deposited in ( Eco-bank ) by my late
husband, I and my husband Andrew picarelli has been married since the
year 2006 before his death and until my husband's death we were
married for many years without any child and the doctors have
confirmed to me that i will not live more than few months from now and
this is why I have to take this bold step of donating the fund to you.

This fund is meant for the purpose of building Humanitarian
Foundation, Orphanage Centers and for the Helping of Widows and the
Less Privileged, HIV/AIDS Victims in the society. Before his death we
were both philanthropist and have been engaged in the building and
establishment of humanitarian foundation around the world.

So, if you are willing to receive this fund you must use it for the
purpose as i have mention.


As soon as you receive this fund in your account you are only required
to take 20% out of the fund as a token of my appreciation and other
inconveniences and the remaining 80% you must use for the purpose as I
have explained to you above for the help of humanity and finally to
fulfil the good wishes of my Late Husband.

 I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing Medical
Treatment Of Cancer of the Lungs and please, I do not need any
telephone conversation for now in respect of my Doctor's advise and
mores because of the presence of my husband's relatives around me even
here in the hospital and I do not want them to know anything about the
existence of this fund. Because I do not want my husband's money to be
misused without using it for the purpose he instructed me before his
death.

So, to enable you receive the fund from the bank where it is presently
deposited you should contact my family lawyer, Barrister LAWSON GEORGE
through his e-mail address: ( lawyerfirm@lawyertg.com )or
through his telephone number:00228-97328726 so that he will guide on
how to receive this fund and if you have any question you can ask him
for he knows everything about this fund, why I am saying this is
because of my bad health condition, and please if you do not hear from
me again do not bother yourself, my lawyer is there to guide you until
you receive this fund in your account, may God bless you as you do His
will and please always pray for me.

Thank You.


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