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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 Vanessa Smith <manar.galal@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: vanessa.smith0@outlook.fr
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:58:52 GMT
Subject: I WANT TO INVEST THIS FUND IN YOUR COUNTRY.

Dear Good day,

Greetings in the name of Almighty God the giver of every good thing. Good day and compliments of the seasons, i know this letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine my future and continued existence. I am Mrs Vanessa Smith of 65 years old from Switzerland suffering from long time illness. I have some funds I inherited from my late husband, the sum of (10.5 Million Dollars) and I needed a very honest and God fearing who can withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity works. I found your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the LORD to bring me a helper and i decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to handle these trust funds in good faith before anything happens to me.

So I want to donate this funds to any Charity Organization or Individual, who will use the money to work for Gods charity homes and I have choose you after going through your profile. I want this money to be share ahead amount to the next privileged since I do not have a child to inherit the money and my late husband relatives all are non believers and I don't want my husbands hand earn money to be used in an ungodly ways. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision because I do not have any child who will inherit this money after I die. I want your urgent reply to me so that I will give you the deposit receipt which the Security Company issued to my late husband as next of kin for immediate transfer of the money to your account in your country, to start the good work of God, I want you to use the 30/percent of the total amount to help yourself in doing the project. I am desperately in keen need of assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you for this task, you must not fail me and the millions of the poor people in our today's WORLD. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved,100% RISK FREE with full legal proof.

Please if you would be able to use the funds for the Charity works kindly let me know immediately.I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in this matter to accomplish my heart desire, as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. I want you to take 30 percent of the total money for your personal use while 70% of the money will go to charity. I did not choose you by my power but by the power of God. Any delay in your respond will give me room to seek for another trustworthy person, Until I hear from you my dreams lay subsequently on your shoulders. Please tell me with full assurance as God fearing person that you will never disappointed me when this funds claimed by you as my beneficiary? I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in this matter to accomplish my heart desire, as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish this mail is a very important confidential massage to you. Please kindly respond me back with this my email address alternative only
My private Email :



Yours faithfully Love Sister
Mrs Vanessa Smith

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