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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.Isabella Caromel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cmrs.isabella@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 06:42:51 -0700
Subject: Private Message To You

Good day
Private Message to you,

Greetings to you in the name of our heavenly father. This email might come to you as a surprise, and then temptation to ignore it could come into your mind too, but please, consider it as a Divine Wish of God and accept it with a deep sense of humility. My Name is Isabella Caromel; I was a victim of tsunami disaster some time which eventually affected my spinal cord, and ear drum then claim my entire families, my husband and two sons. Presently I’m disabled by the catastrophe that struck me, therefore I’m now on a wheelchair after all treatments and no success. My state of health has made me decided to give a better life to the poor, since it has determine medically that I have some few months to live according to my doctor advice.

I now decided to leave a legacy for people to remember me. Therefore I will need you to build charity organizations for the less privilege since my health has finally confirmed deteriorated. With my present condition this project cannot be executed by me alone, so therefore I need your candid voluntarily support to execute the project to make this dream a reality. I have decided to
invest my $10.6M USD to help the less privileged, and you are chosen from my heart to help receive the funds from where it was kept secretly to build charity organizations for the less privilege to have some better life.

Please I will appreciate if you can indicate interest to help me actualize this last dream by replying back with the following. Include your personal contact details which will be forward to the deposited firm for onward communication with you on how to transfer the funds to you. I will also provide you the legal documents that will enable you claim the funds.

Please reply me at mrs.isabellacaromel@yahoo.com.hk without delay.

Remain blessed,
Mrs. Isabella Caromel

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