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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: Rebecca Williams <williamsrebecca07@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Rebecca Williams <williams.rebecca44@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:44:40 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Donation for Mrs. Rebecca Williams


Donation for Mrs. Rebecca Williams

Dear in the Lord

I apologize if the contents of this mail are contrary to your moralethics, I see can be very disturbing in his personal life ,
but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal and I pray that this message reaches you in the best of health.
I pray that this message reaches you in wonderful spirit as I make this contact with you based on trust and confidence i rrespective of which were not known before , due to the nature of the situation in which I found myself. i Get your personal contact through the web effort and decided to contact . I think that my contact with you is not aordinary coincidence because God can use any body known or unknown to achieve great things he has commanded.
i'm Rebecca Williams . Hospitalization after I had a car accident with my family, I lost my husband and my two daughters who were also on board the accident. After the accident , I've been struggling with some healththe problems of serious injury in the case of accident.Recently , my doctor told me I have a few months to live because of the surgery that is what bothers conducted.Though is my current situation ,
due to injuries and damaged my spinal cords in accident . Having known my condition I decided to Will / Donate the sum of 2.5 million ( two million five hundred thousand dollars) to charity and individual through you for the good work of the lord, and to help motherless , less privileged and with the assistance of the widows .Because I am the only surviving person and nobody else that will inherit this money, are now dead. I do not want a situation in whichThis deposit will be confiscated and held for officials of the bank where it was deposited by my late husband in , who worked with shell development company as an engineer before his death .
All I want to do is help the fund that is two million five hundred U.S. dollars deposited in the custody of the security company before it was confiscated or declared without serviceable.I seek your consent to present you as administrator of the estate of my late husband , so that the amount of this account can be paid to you. If you are interested in carrying out this task , I want you to contact meimmediately , so that you can arrange all the modalities to conduct the release of the funds to you . I know I've never met , but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely. I have also decided that 30 % of this money should be taken by you from the total sum in the successful launch of this fund. I am now too weak and fragile to do things myself because of my current health problems . I have no fear of death . I know I 'm going to be on the Lord's chest. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the Lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace .

I appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is done, and I do not want anything to jeopardize my last wish . Please provide me your full name , address and contact details number , so I will prepare all the relevant documentsto effect delivery of the funds to you .
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Rebecca Williams

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