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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. Dame Patience" <info19@greenincxx2.ph.tn>
Reply-To: <mrsdam.jonathan2016@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:11:30 -0400
Subject: VERY URGENT

Dearest,

Before I proceed, I must first apologize for this unsolicited mail to you. I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of approach to establish a relationship of trust, but you will realize the need for my action. I am Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan, former First Lady of Nigeria and the wife of former President of Nigeria,Goodluck Jonathan, my husband was shamefully rigged out, in March 28th 2015 election. I got your contact email address through my research, and out of desperation,i decided to reach you through this medium to ASSIST me receive the sum of US$85Million (Eighty-Five Million United States Dollars) kept in one of the top banks in Europe.

I will give you more information as to this regard as soon as you reply, am so lucky that the bank officials who knew about this fund are nice people and really want to help me and have kept the information of the funds strictly confidential, and have advice me to source for good investor that will receive the funds on my behalf for investment to avoid any confiscation. I have been thrown into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness, please kindly be fast about this transaction if you are interested as further delay to do something might lead to totally losing of the funds.

I will be willing to offer you some good percentage out of the total fund if only you will receive this fund and keep it for us. Please note that honesty is the watch word in this transaction. I will require your full Names, address, telephone and Occupation,you can reach me through these email.(mrsdam.jonathan2016@yandex.com) so that I can forward to the private fiduciary agent who knew everything about the money and the bank where the money is deposited,in order to commence communication with you. In case you don’t accept, please do not expose my mail. Be kind to get back to me, if you are not interested so that I can further my search for another partner.

My private fiduciary agent has guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement with the bank without the breach of the law. Also, he has worked out all modalities to complete the transaction successfully within the shortest possible time.

Kind regards,
Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan.
mrsdam.jonathan2016@yandex.com

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