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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: "Mr. Daniel Hwang" <wwww.@sand.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Daniel Hwang" <informativedk@yeah.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:53:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: REGARDING A WILL,

REGARDING A WILL,

I am Mother Catherine J Ernest, 91 Years old woman and the wife of Late
Thompson, Ernest, 70, American who died in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th
of September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to
Geneva. Please see site below. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/
swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment but
before the death of my husband we had a plan to use the last days of our
lives to donate half of what we have worked for to the less privilege and
charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members and close
friends, and it is so unfortunate that my husband is not alive today to do
this with me and I am very weak and old now, hence I have decided to do
this philanthropic work on behalf of my late husband and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity
homes and to some of the less privilege in different countries. Despite the
agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the deprived.

we also agreed to render support to an individual we have not meet before
in life due to the fact when we were still young in life we receive an
anonymous help from an individual we did not know and which we have not
being able to know till date, the impact we got from such gesture made us
to do same.

I deposited sum of $19.2 million to you in Bank of Montreal, BMO.Remember
have paid for ownership certificate and Clearance Certificate Fee the only
money you need to send to the bank is stamp fee.

Contact Name of the paying bank: Bank of Montreal
Mr. Daniel Hwang,director foreign operation,
Bank address: 2461 Beacon Avenue, SIDNEY, BC, V8L1X7, Canada
E-mail: informativedk@yeah.net<informativedk@yeah.net>
Phone: (250) 208-1887


Ensure you reconfirm your address to avoid mistake, and don’t forget to
indicate how you which to receive the funds, bank transfer, ATM card
payment or cashiers check.

Your Home address:...................
Direct telephone number: .........................
Occupation:..........................
Copy of your Identity card:...................


Yours Faithfully,
Mother Catherine J Ernest

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