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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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Fraud email example:

From: Anderline Aman <anderlineaman2014@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Anderline Aman <amananderline@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:06:24 +0900 (JST)
Subject: URGENT MESSAGE FROM THE HOSPITAL


I am Miss Anderline Aman from Qatar . I am writing from the hospital in
Ivory Coast , therefore this mail is very urgent, I am dying in the
hospital which i don't know what tomorrow will be. I was told by my
doctor that i was poisoned and has got my liver damaged and can only
live for some months, and is my step mother that wants to kill me, to
take my belongings after since the death of my Father. She was the one
that is responsible for this my critical condition now in the hospital because my step mother poison me because my inheritance from my late
father.
 
 I have a little orphan child, named
devon and $7.5 million Dollars I inherited from my late father, my step
mother and her children are after the little orphan child,  devon
because he knows about the documents of the
money and about the poison, for that they do not want him to expose
them, so they will do anything possible to kill him, so i want you to
help him out of this country with some of my inheritance fund when it
transferred to your account
 
 I will give you the  Ophan Child
information and his e-mail address with his phone number in my next
message so that He will give you the documents of the money and will
direct you to a well known lawyer that i have appointed to him, the
lawyer will assist you to change the documents of the money to your name
to enable the bank transfer the money to you..
 
 This is the favour i need when you have gotten the money :
 
 (1)You
will Give 20% of the money to the Ophan Chiled devon as he has been
there for me through my illness and I have promised to support him in
life. I want you to take him along with you to your country and
establish him as your son.
 
 (2)You will Give 30% of the money to handicap people and charity
organization. The remaining 50% should be for you and others that you
would love to assist.
 
 Note; This should be a code between you
and my orphan child in this transaction "Hospital" any mail from him, 

 And Let devon  send you his national I.D  to be sure of whom you are dealing with. Devon
 is so little therefore guide him. And if I don't hear from you, I will look for another person or an organization.
 
 I
will wait to read back from you so that I send you contact information
of Ophan Chiled so that he will direct you to who will help you to get
this transaction done

  I want you to send the following items to
me:
 (1) Your full name....
 (2) Your address....
 (3) Your Nationality....
 (4) Your Age / Sex.....
 (5) Your Occupation.......
 (6) Your marital status.....
 (7) Your direct telephone number....
 may God Bless you
 
 May Almighty God bless you and use you to accomplish my wish.
 Pray for me always.
 Miss Anderline Aman

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