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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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Fraud email example:

From: =?UTF-8?B?Ik1ycy4gVGVzc3kgQm9uZ2FyYSI=?= <tessybongara170@terra.com.pe>
Date:
Subject:

Dear God's elect, 

I believe you will do better than I think,&n= bsp;

It is understandable that you may be a bit apprehensive because= you do not know me, I am writing this mail to you with serious tears in my= eyes and great sorrow in my heart, I decided to contact you due to the urg= ency of my situation. My Name is Mrs. Tessy Bongara, Am contacting you from= my country Tunisia . I want to tell you this because I don=E2=80=99t have = any other option than to tell you as I was touched to open up to you, I am = married to Late Dr. Anthony Bongara who worked with Tunisia embassy in Ouag= adougou the capital city of Burkina Faso: in west Africa for nine years bef= ore he died in the year 2005. We were married for eleven years without a ch= ild. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. Since hi= s death I decided not to remarry again, when my late husband was alive he d= eposited the sum of $7.2 USD Million (Seven million two hundred thousand do= llars) with a bank in Ouagadougou , 

Presently this money still= in the bank there. He made this money available for exportation of Gold fr= om Burkina mining. Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for th= e period of seven months due to cancer problem. The one that disturbs me mo= st is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to hand you o= ver this mission to take care of the less-privileged, you will utilize this= money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want you to take 30 Percent= of the total money for your personal use While 70% of the money will go to= charity work" helping people in the street. 

Because I grew up= as an Orphan and I don't have anybody as my family member, just to endeavo= ur that the house of God is maintained. Am doing this so that God will forg= ive my sins and accept my soul because this sickness has suffered me so muc= h. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank= in Burkina Faso and I will also instruct my lawyer to issue you an authori= ty letter that will prove you the present beneficiary of the money in the b= ank that's if you assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herei= n. 

Remain blessed 
Yours Sister 
Mrs. Tessy Bo= ngara.

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