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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: NIMA PRECIOUS <nimaprecious40@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 06:04:44 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP FROM YOUR DAUGHTER LINDA,

Hello Dear,

How are you doing and your family also your job hope all is well and
thank God for the life he gave to you and your family and me today..My
Name is Miss Precious Linda , 26years old girl, from Ghana , i am the
first daughter of my late father Chief Dr John Azuh. Who die
unbelievable deaths on car accident on 21th April 2014 before the death
of my father he left deposited $6.5 Million Dollar, For me and GOLD
AND DIAMOND at Bank, now my uncles want to kill me and take it alone
and live me as the only daughter ,

Please I need your help to save this money and which i want to transfer to you
and come to you for my further my Education and use part of the money
to invest in your country and start a new life over there and up
keeping in your city , please if you do this for me God Will Bless you
and i promise you 30% out of the money, but i want to leave Africa for
my save life

I met the bank manager who advice me to contact you to help me and
come over to your country
and invest the fund there and start a new life over there please i am
here to big you to help me ok my uncle want to kill me and take the
money only him Please all I need from you is to provide me your
information bellow so that i will take it to the Bank manager ,

Your full name
Address
Contact number
Your ID

please what makes me contact you is that i can't go to school again here
because I Don't have any one to help me that is why so that i will start school
over there .Hope to hear from you soon, Please email me back....

Yours

Daughter
LINDA PRECIOUS ,

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