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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: "Mrs. Natalie Woo" <>
Reply-To: nataliewoo57@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 07:08:54 -0800
Subject: IMPORTANT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Belove,

Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I am Mrs. Natalie Woo, I am 51 years old, a widow to late Mr. Richard .A. Woo, A merchant (Business man), who died on 24 July 2012 at Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17). I was going through some files of my late husband, and I discovered a Deposit Certificate of £4.6M (Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Great Bristish Pounds Sterlin) which he deposited in Scoutts Bank London United Kingdom. But due to my sickness, I have not been able to claim this fund from the Bank, as I have been in the hospital in Liverpool and my sickness continue getting worst, and my husband family want to remove everything from me because i do not have any child with my late husband. I am suffering from a protracted cancer of the lungs which has affected my brain. From all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and my doctor have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond two to Three Months.

I am contacting you based on trust to present you to the holding Bank as the Next of Kin and Bonafide Inheritor to my Late Husband's Funds, since I cannot claim this funds myself now and I may not live beyond next Two-Three months according to my Doctors, but I have the faith in God that I will live more than the months my Doctors said by God grace. Presently, I'm with my laptop in the hospital where I have been undergoing treatment in Liverpool. Please! Please!! Your help is needed to avoid this money been diverted to my late husband family Imagine somebody who has no child, I have nobody taking care of me here in the Hospital, and the money I have now is limited. Of which, that £4.6 Million is my only hope to continue my treatment here in the Hospital, and hopefully by God grace I will survive.

If you will be so kind to be of help, I will be very glad and only God will reward you for that. Upon the successful claim/deliver of the Funds as the next of Kin, 30% of the total money will be taking as your own share, 10% goes to the Orphanage homes, while the remaining 60% will be transfer to my account here in Liverpool for my Treatment. Please in your response, send me the following information to enable me validate you as the legal beneficiary of this funds:

1. Your full names
2. Mobile phone number/home phone number/office phone number
3. Age, Address and Marital status
4. Occuption/Company's name & address including your position in the Office
5. Name of your next of kin.

These whole information is what I need from you so that I can present a Letter of Authorization to the Bank/security company where the funds is deposited to contact you as the beneficiary on how to claim these Funds.

Your assistant will be highly appreciated.

Thanks. And God Bless you
Mrs. Natalie Woo

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