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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: "Margaret J." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <margkins65@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:04:14 +0100
Subject: RE: Beloved: Are you in Grand Port, Mahebourg?

Date: February 03, 2015.


Beloved,


With a good heart I write to establish relationship with you and May the peace of our good lord be with you. I am Sis. Margaret Jenkins a Mauritian, presently living in a town called Grand Port, in Mahébourg Mauritious.I'm a widow, though I lived the better part of my life working with my husband, Robert Jenkins of blessed memories in the field of prospecting and Mining for solid minerals in Africa. Between us (I and Robert) we made a fortune from solid minerals until he passed on in a fatal motor accident when he was trying to escape an ambush by robbers in the DR Congo.


After this hurrible incident, I was diagnosed of Oaesophagal Cancer which I have been fighting with for some years now. This sickness has defied all forms of Chemo and Radio therapy. I have since lost my power of speech as a result of unsuccessful vocal fold nodules (VFNs) surgery. Life has become unbearable, and as it seems, I can only communicate through writing at the moment. I was flown out from a Specialist Hospital in Stockholm in 17th December 2013 to my country home in Grand Port because both Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy treatments in Norrbottens Lans Landsting wasn't a success. I was placed on observation for few months at Onkologiskt Centrum Vastra Sjukvårdsregionen in Sweden hoping my situation would get better, unfortunately reverse was the case, I decided at last to come back home to send my last days, knowing too well that this neccessary end will come when it would.



Beloved, it is not my wish to say this but with faith I am confident I will make it to be in peace, I have just few months left to live as confirmed by my cancerologists Doctor Gittan Sunnergren & Dr. Christer Lundberg. I want nature and the Almighty to be merciful to me and accept my soul if I finally pass on. I have decided to give my wealth to Charity organizations and the poor around the world. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly and I am now bed-ridden, I cannot handle the distribution of my wealth for charitable purposes myself.


I am contacting you because my family has failed me severally, recently, i instructed them to close three of my accounts in Luxembourg and Africa and donate what was left to the motherless/Charity homes across Asia, South America and Africa and give me report of those that benefited from it, at least list of people that signed acceptence note and that was the last I heard from them. They greedily refused and kept the monies for personal use. I do not trust them anymore, they failed me and can't earn my trust, i won't entrust anything to them again. Though, I have forgiven them all because if our good Lord forgives, why won't i forgive anyone that succumbed to the desire of the flesh which am confident they will redeem in one way or the other. The last of my funds which none of them knew of is the deposit I and Robert kept in a reliable safe deposit firm in Africa from the covert sales of Diamonds, Saphire, rose quartz, jade, peridot, chryroprase,golden beryl, lapis lazali,Emerald and Topaz.


I want to entrust this in care of a total stranger, Can you help me to collect this deposit and distribute it to Charity organizations and the poor in Asia, south America and across Africa using your discretion and earn 10% of the funds as your fee/commission for this humanitarian work?



May the Peace of the Almighty be with you.


Sis. Margaret J.


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