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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: "Sussan Collins" <collismnds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:06:37 -0700
Subject: God bless you for your assistance

God bless you for your assistance

How are you my dear?
I decided to contact you after my promise to god to establish a Charity Foundation with my late husband hard earn money sum of (Three million five hundred thousand united states dollars ) to help the less privileges, orphans and the widows. First of all, my name is Mrs. Sussan Collins; I am married to late Mr. Jean-Pierre Collins for 22 years without a Child. Both of us are from Southern Sudan but we base and spend our life time in Cote Divoire where my late husband was working with Oil Company (PETROCI) Cote D'Ivoire www.petroci.ci as the petroleum Manager before his death in the year 2011.

Presently i am 42years old and very sick which my doctor says that i will not last more than 2 months because I am suffering from cancer, including Stroke. Now due to my present health condition, I have decided to donate this money to a reliable person that will use this money to establish a Charity Foundation on my behalf to help the orphans and less privileged since I don't have any child to inherit the fund when am no more alive. This was my reason for contacting you and i believe you will not find it difficult to help me?

Your reward from me will be 30% of the money for your efforts and volunteering yourself to handle this Charity organization on my behalf. Take note there is no illegal activity on this; I have the document to prove this money legal. I will be waiting for reply as soon as possible for more details.

May god bless you for your assistance.
Mrs. Sussan Collins 

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