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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: rita king <ritaritakingcb1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ritaritaking1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:47:52 +0430
Subject: URGENT AND COMFIDENCIAL

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

My name is Rita King I am 19 years old the only child of late Mr
Daniel King from a country called TOGO REPUBLIC in West Africa ,my
mother died when I was still small and since then my father took me so
special because I was his only child.My father was a very rich man
here in this country during his days ,He was a dealer of Gold business
and has a lot of landed properties here , but it is sad to tell you
about the sudden death of my father , His family brothers poison him
to death because they where envy of his wealth, My father suffered the
poison illness for 7days at the hospital and letter died , before the
death of my father at the hospital He told me about some money
$3,500.000.00 Three million and five hundred thousand united sate
dollars which he deposited in a bank with my name as the next of Kin.
dear I have all the documents of the deposit with me here now , after
the burial of my father His family members seize all his properties
and business and left nothing for me , all that remains for me now is
only this money at the bank.

but because of this money they started planning how to Assassinate me
so that they will take the deposit documents and claim the money at
the bank,so when i discover their evil plan against my life I ran away
from our home and now am hiding out in a church refugee Camp in
village here so that my life will be save .please save my life from
this wicked people ,I want you to help me claim this money out from
the bank and transfer it to your account so that I will come over to
your country and stay with you and your family and continue my
education again , this is why I contacted you for the first time, I
need your urgent help now to come out of this situation ,I am going
through a difficult situation here now ,I am really tired of staying
here without parents and no rest of mind ,please help me , and if you
read this massage and you are touched in heart to help me out from
this situation reply me back immediately so that I can give you more
details about everything , I am waiting to hear from you as soon as
possible on this Email address ritaritaking1@yahoo.co.uk .

My best regards to your family members.
Yours Truly
Rita King ,

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