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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: AkiluhAkiluh <evelynattah5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: AkiluhAkiluh <mary_akiluh2000@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 09:51:41 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Good day Child of God,


Good day Child of God,

Calvary Greetings in the name of the LORD Almighty and Our LORD JESUS CHRIST
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. Mary Akiluh aging widow of 67 years old suffering
from long time illness. I have some funds I inherited from my late
husband, tue sum of (17.5 Million Dollars) and I needed a very honest
and God fearing  who can withdraw this money then use the funds for
Charity works. I WISH TO GIVE THIS FUNDS TO YOU 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.

I accept this 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 COMPANY issued to me 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 40/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 todays
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 40 percent of the total
money for your personal use while 60% of the money will go to charity.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. Please kindly respond for further details.
reply to my private E-mail:

Thanks and God bless you,
Mrs.  Mary Akilu

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