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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: Asana Hajraf <asanahajraf@freemail.hu>
Reply-To: Asana Hajraf <asana_hajraf@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 20:53:38 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Carissima/Dearest


Carissima

Sono la signora Asana Hajraf e sono sposata con il signor Hassan Hajraf per 19 anni senza un bambino e mio marito è morto nel 2008.I sto contattando voi per farvi sapere il mio desiderio di donare la somma di $ 4,5 milioni di dollari per beneficenza in il paese che ho ereditato da mio marito. A causa della mia
malattia del cancro sono state confermate che avrò
solo otto mesi di vita, quindi è il mio desiderio di vedere che questo denaro è investito a qualsiasi organizzazione di vostra scelta e distribuito a organizzazioni di beneficenza, i bambini senza madre in casa, le scuole e il supporto per gli uomini e le donne senza fissa dimora o si può prendere in considerazione il beneficio di chi è meno fortunato. Non voglio questo fondo da utilizzare diabolicamente. Non appena ho ricevuto la sua risposta che conferma l'accettazione di lavoro vi dico, vi darò tutte le informazioni utili di autorizzare la comunicazione e trasferire i soldi a voi come mio rappresentante debitamente nominato. Io ti do il contatto della banca e sarà anche ottenere una lettera di autorità che vi mostrerà che siete un beneficiario corrente di questo fondo. Nella speranza di ricevere una risposta con le informazioni.

Grazie,
La signora Asana Hajraf

Dearest

I am Mrs. Asana Hajraf and I'm married to Mr.
Hassan Hajraf for 19 years without a child and my husband died in 2008.I am contacting you to let you know my desire to donate the sum of $ 4.5 million to charities in your country that I inherited from my late husband. Due to my illness of cancer were confirmed that i will have only eight months to live, so it is my desire to see that this money is invested to any
organization of your choice and distributed to charity organizations, motherless babies home, schools and support for men and women homeless or you can consider the benefit of those less
fortunate. I do not want
this fund to be use diabollically. As soon as I receive your reply confirming your acceptance of work I tell you, I will give all relevant information to authorize the release and transfer the money to you as my duly appointed representative. I will I give you the contact of the bank and  will also obtain a letter of authority that will show that you are a current beneficiary of this fund. Hoping to receive a reply with the information.

Thank you,
Mrs. Asana Hajraf

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