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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.Christiana Paul" <christianapaul@megatextsphils.com>
Reply-To: christianapaul84@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:01:44 +0800
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL FROM CHRISTIANA PAUL




I am Mrs.Christiana Paul, the personal accountant to Ronald Lake and Joyce
Lake who used to work with Frank Howard Allen Realtors. On the 31st of
January 2000, my client and his wife were involved in a Plane Crash
(Alaska Airlines Flight 261) all passengers unfortunately lost their
lives, since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my
client?s extended relatives but this proved unsuccessful.

After all these several unsuccessful attempts, since it's not compulsory
that the next-of-kin must be a blood relation to the deceased, hence I
contacted you because you are from the same country with my late client,
Be informed that a next-of-kin can be anybody, friends or organization.

Presently,the Bank where the deceased (my client) had a Deposit valued at
US$74,980,000.00 Million issued me a notice to provide the next-of-kin to
my client to receive its benefit or have the account confiscated, so I
have contacted you to assist me in repatriating this benefit left behind
by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
Bank.

To this effect, I now seek your consent to present you to the Bank as the
next of kin of the deceased (my Client) so that the proceeds of this
Deposit valued at US$74,980,000.00 Million can be paid to you and then you
and I can share the money; 70% to me and 25% to you, while 5% will be used
in settling any incurred expenses on both sides.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me
via my private Email: (christianapual@yahoo.co.uk) below is the
details immediately you acknowledge the good receipt of this message.

Your prompt response is highly imperative.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs.Christiana Paul

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