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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 <montpellier@1001listes.fr>
Reply-To: <j_awani@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 07:04:41 -0400
Subject: My Dear Beloved,

My Dear Beloved,
Let me  inform you, I got your email address from a directory 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: j_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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