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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 Sadia Alice." <saidia.alice01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 13:22:18 +0100
Subject: Reply Urgently


Reply Urgently=C2=A0
Dear beloved,
=C2=A0
I sent this mail praying for it to reach you in good health, since I
myself am in a very critical health condition in which I go to bed every
night knowing I may not be alive to see the next day. I am Sadia Alice from
Libya but I'm contacting you from a hospital bed where I wrote this mail in
tears, hoping to let you know of my ordeal. I use to be married to the late
Usman Farouk who until his death in October 2005 was a secret agent to the
now late president Moammar Gadhafi of Libya. We were married for thirteen
years but had no child. My husband died in his office in Burkina Faso as a
result of heart attack and I made a decision to live out the rest of my
life as his widow.
=C2=A0
Very shortly before my husband=E2=80=99s death, he made a deposit of Elev=
en
Million United States dollars with one of the prime bank in Burkina Faso.
This fund is not traceable since it came as proceed from unaccounted Libya
oil and gas contracts executed under the late leader of Libya, Moammar
Gadhafi. Now, with the deaths of my husband and Gadhafi who was deposed in
the Libya civil war, I'm now the only one that knows of this particular
fund and presently I'm in this hospital bed dying of cancer as the doctor
has made it clear that I'm no longer responding to medications, indicating
that I will not be living much longer, but I will rather die in this
hospital than go home to face more insults and humiliation from my husband
relatives who took away all my personal money and jewels and left me
uncared-for just because I=E2=80=99m an orphan.
=C2=A0
Having considered my position, I have decided to use you to carry out my
plan. I will guide you to receive the eleven million U.S dollars from the
bank in Burkina Faso and you will take 30% of it for yourself and your
family while you will use the other 70% and build an orphanage home for the
motherless children in your location or anywhere of your choice. This is
because I'm an orphan and does not have any relative. It has always been my
desire to build an orphanage home for motherless children like myself
before this sickness came between my plans. Please you must follow this
directive or I will look for another person. The only reason I will not
entrust the fund and project to someone around here is because I'm making
it a top secret so that the news doesn=E2=80=99t get to my husband relative=
s who
will not allow the fund to be used for humanitarian work but will quickly
confiscate the money and have it shared amongst them.
=C2=A0
=C2=A0However, if you are not capable of handling this task or you do not=
have
confidence in this message, please kindly delete it and accept my sincere
apology for contacting you in this manner, but if you have confidence in it
and can handle the task then kindly indicate by responding.
=C2=A0
I will be waiting to hear from you.
=C2=A0
=C2=A0
Thanks and regards.=C2=A0
Mrs Sadia Alice.

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