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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. Valeria Nice" <valeria.nice31@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <valeria.nice2015@post.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:32:37 +0000
Subject: Could you help in this =?UTF-8?Q?transaction=3F?=



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Hello dear,

I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great
sorrow in my heart, My Name is Mrs. Valeria Nice. I am contacting you
from my sick bed here in the hospital, I married to Mr. Edward Nice, an
American national and Oil magnate in the West African region, based in
Ivory Coast who died in the year 2013. We were married for nineteen
years and we adopted a child.

He died after a brief illness which lasted for only three days. Since
His death I decided not to re-marry again, When my late husband was
alive he deposited the sum of Five Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars
in a bank in Cote D' Ivoire and Presently this money is still in bank.

Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for a long period of
time due to my acute cancer problems. The one that disturbs me most is
my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to hand you over
this money to take care of the less-privileged people, you will utilize
this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want you to take 20
Percent of the total money for your personal use While 20% of the money
will go to charity people in the street and helping the orphanage. The
rest 60% you will use and bring my gaughter over to your country and
open an investment for her to enable her start a good live and complete
her education. I want to leave a legendary step after my departure on
earth.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the
banker and I will also instruct the Banker to proceed on the processes
of the transfer of this fund to your account (i.e) that is if you assure
me that you will act accordingly. I shall be anticipating your urgent
response!!


Yours Sincerely
Mrs. Valeria Nice

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