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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: Susan Collins <susancollins633@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Susan Collins <susancollins631@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 08:13:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Message from Madam Susan Collins


Calvary Greetings.
I greet and thank you for reading my message. Let me introduce myself once again; my name is Mrs. Susan Collins from Israel. I'm now in Abidjan Ivory coast, where I was staying with my late husband, before his sudden death. And after the death of my late husband, I inherited all his wealth and business. But right now, I'm very sick and suffering from kidney Cancer an according to my doctor he said i will not last for the next two months. So I decided to donate this money to a honest individual who will use it to work for God, helping the orphans, widow and maintenance of God's house. There are a lot of people out there who can
handle this project but I cannot question
 God who choose you for his work,

 I believe that this is a Divine order and stewardship. Do not neglect this
offer as it is the way to propagate the work of God and helping the less privilege people as I have all my life, always learnt to walk by Faith and Not by Sight. I will always follow my heart, and will always do GOOD and if the spirit leads you to do so continue doing good because this world is vanity, as I believed that by helping the poor and the work of God is most important, so I prayed seriously for God's divine direction and his mercy before contacting you and I pray that My God will continue to guide and direct you as you carry this project entrusted to you.

  I believe that you are capable to carry this service as I told you, I am weakened by my sickness but I am not afraid of death because I know where I am going. I give glory to the Almighty God who has sustained and kept me  till this day and would please want you to do this very fast to conclude  this transfer with the bank because it has been my wish to be alive
to  witness that the transfer made to you before leaving this world,   I want you to take 15% of this total (US $3M,000 000,) Three million dollars) for your efforts and use the remaining one as I stated earlier,

 I am childless now, but i grieve not for myself, but rather, for those unfortunate underprivileged children out there, in the street. The widows and orphans. They are the ones; I wanted to assist through you, as you will be the executor and trustee of this fund.  I will need you to send me your full information such as

 Your full name
Your address
 Your picture
 Your age, country and occupation

With this information, I will write  and introduce you to the Bank through the help of
my Nurse to make you the new Beneficiary of this fund,  I shall pass this way but once Therefore any good that I can do or any  kindness that I can show to humanity, let me do it
now for I shall
not pass
away twice, waiting to read from you today.

Remain blessed

Your Sister Mrs. Susan Collins,

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