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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: Doris Atta <achiamand1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Doris Atta <doris2atta@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 00:14:05 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings From Mrs Doris Atta


Greetings From Mrs Doris Atta,

After going through your
information over the internet i decided to contact you for friendship
and assistance for distribution of my inheritance towards charity. My
name is Mrs.Doris Atta; I am a dying woman who has decided to donate
what I have for the good work of God. I am 63 years old and I was
diagnosed for breast cancer for about 2 years now.

I have been
touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband
to you for the good work of God, rather than allow my husband evil
relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly. They don't care
about man kind, all they care is how to rob some money from me and spend
them ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord forgives me my sins. I
have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has because He is a
merciful God. I will be going in for a surgery soon and I want to make
sure that I make this donation before undergoing my surgery.

I
decided to donate the sum of $6,400,000.00 (Six million Four hundred
thousand dollars) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help
the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the
widows and unfortunate mothers. At the moment I cannot take any
telephone calls right now due to the fact that my husband's relatives
are always around me and trying to see if they can overhear my
conversations and my health status as well.

I wish you all the
best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the
funds well and always extend the good work to others. I have informed my
consultant about the ($6,400,000.00). it is true that I don't know you
and you don't know me, but I have been directed by God to contact you
for this. Thanks and God bless. I will direct you further after hearing
from you.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in
this matter until the task is accomplished as I don't want anything that
will jeopardize my wish. Also I will be contacting with you only by
email as I don't want my husband relations or anybody to know because
they are always around me.

Regards,

Mrs.Doris Atta

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