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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. Elizabeth Brown" <bmrs.elizabeth42@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 13:51:43 +0100
Subject:

Dear Friend,


I warmly greet you.


Please forgive me if my plea sounds a little strange or unbelievable to
you. My family attorney who could have handled the process of executing my
WILL & TESTAMENT on my behalf died early this year after a protracted
illness. I therefore prayed fervently and by the special grace of GOD, I
got your email ID from your country's guest book. I am Mrs. Elizabeth
Brown, a native of United Kingdom, I am 58 years old. I am suffering from
protracted cancer of the lungs which has also affected part of my brain
cells due to complications. From all indication, my condition has
deteriorated and it is quite obvious according to my doctors that i may not
live for the next couple of months, because my condition has gotten to a
critical and life threatening stage.


I am a people driven entrepreneur and a very God fearing woman. Steve and I
lived in London for over 18 years, where my husband a petrochemical
engineer by profession worked and rose through the ranks to become an
executive director with a multinational construction and oil servicing
conglomerate, before his death. He also established huge private
investments that i controlled while he lived.


Consequent upon the confounding and shocking demise of my priceless
husband, i opted as a rule, not to re-marry. When my cancer ailment became
terminal & more so because i do not have a next of kin to bequeath all that
STEVE & I labored for, i sold off all our choice assets and other inherited
properties comprising of a shopping mall, an hotel, shares, bonds,
jewelries and other valuable family treasures and deposited the proceeds
amounting to USD$10,000,000.00 (TEN MILLION DOLLARS ONLY) with Bank. As I
write to you, this fund is still deposited with the bank. The management of
the bank just wrote me as the sole beneficiary of the fund because of the
unserviceable status of the fund and suggested to me in a 2 paragraph
statement to issue a letter of authorization to someone who can manage the
fund on my behalf because of my terminal illness and also threatened that
the fund could be confiscated upon my failure to adhere to their Banking
rules and regulations within a stipula!
ted time frame.


I am presently on admission at the intensive care unit of a London
hospital, located at fulham road in west London United Kingdom. It is the
leading cancer treatment hospital in the world and i have been undergoing
treatment there for late-stage terminal cancer of the lungs. I am computer
literate; I rarely talk but was fortunate enough to have my personal laptop
with me and was permitted by my physicians to use it, hence I am writing
from my sick bed. It is my last WISH therefore to see that 70% of this fund
is invested substantially in any charitable organization of your choice and
administered as you may deem fit, especially to the orphanage homes and
homes for destitute and the mentally retarded. You can also donate part of
the funds to churches and mosques and to those struck by natural disaster.
I have earmarked 30% of the total fund for you following your assistance to
me to carry out this project.


I crave your indulgence as a God fearing individual and an uncommon
humanitarian that cares so much about the plight of the less-privileged as
much as i do to take it upon yourself and use this fund for the above
mentioned purposes took this painstaking decision in other to help humanity
in my little capacity before i die. My sojourn on earth will soon be up and
that is the truth.


Note that as soon as I receive your reply and personal information as
listed below, I shall give you the official contact of my Bank, to enable
you contact the Bank without delays. I will also issue you with an official
letter of authorization, so that my bankers will recognize your status as
the new beneficiary of the fund.


The letter of authorization will further prove that you are the new
beneficiary of my FUND, ESTATE, and WILL & TESTAMENT. The fund has an open
beneficiary mandate and as such, it is whom i authorize or appoint to act
on my behalf that the bank will recognize and release the funds to and by
this email, the onus has fallen on you. Please assure me that you will not
treat this offer with levity but will rather give my bequest continued
existence. Send the information in this order:


(1) Your full names: ============================= =====(2) Personal or official contact address:====================== ========(3) Home or Office phone#:===========Îll phone#: =========úx#:======(4) Your Age:==============(5)Occupation:================ ==========(6)Sex/Marital status:======================= (7)Copy of Your passport or any appropriate means of Identification


I wait your warmly response remain blessed.

Yours Sister in the Lord
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown.
(London Uk)
Contact me on my Private Email: mrs.elizabethbrown@yahoo.pt

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