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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: Elena Dongvani <wesley_roxa@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Elena Dongvani <delegvani@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 21:43:06 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Urgenty From The Hospital


Name: Mrs. Elena  Dongvani
Country of birth:  Republic of Turkey.

Attn: Beloved,

Greetings
in the name of Almighty God, I am Mrs. Elena Dongvani, a citizen of
Ankara, Turkey.  am 63 years old, I and my beloved husband Dr. Sergei 
Dongvani are good
Christians but from all indication, my conditions is really
deteriorating and it is quite depressing, i have been suffering from a
long time cancer of the Lungs, from obvious reasons, that I wont live
more than 8 months, according to my doctors, this is because the cancer
stage has gotten to a very bad stage.

My late husband died last
two years ago in a plane crash, during the period of our marriage we
couldn't produce any child. My late husband was very wealthy who was the
director general in a Gold mining company in Africa and based in West
Africa.

Abidjan – Ivory Coast
Sdv-Saga Cote D’Ivoire Shipping Agency
Vridi Rue Du Terminal A Conteneurs
01BP 1727 Abidjan 01, Ivory Coast.

The doctors has advised me
that I may not live for more than 8 month, after his death, I inherited
all his business and wealth, so I now decided to divide the part of his
wealth to contribute to the development of the churches in Africa,
America, Asia, and Europe.

I selected you after visiting the
website and I prayed over it. I am willing to donate the sum of
$11,500.000.00 ( Four million five hundred thousand United States
dollars) to the less privileged.

Please I want you to note that
this particular fund was deposited in the Bank by my late  Husband
before his death. Once i hear from you, I will forward to you all the
information you will use to get the fund released from the Bank and to
be transferred to your account.

I honestly pray that this money
when transferred to your account will be used for the said purpose,
because I have come to find out that wealth acquisition without
humility, all is vanity.

Please provide me with the following
information so I can forward it to the bank attorney who used to work
for my late husband's lawyer.

He is diligent and a Christian so I
am confident he is going to handle the transaction with good heart to
fulfill the purpose of God in the life of the future generation of this
World.

A soon as i get your sincere response to my charitable
offer i will get more advice from the bank attorney on how to secure the
funds in your favor.

Information needed for these Project:
Full name...................................
Full address......................................
Company and address:...........................
Marital status:...............................
Religion:..........................................
Sex:...................................................
Fax number..............................................
Phone number:............................................

I await your urgent reply
Yours Sincerely
Mrs. Elena  Dongvani

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