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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 jurianabel.michel" <marianmichel4321@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:15:05 -0400
Subject: Greetings to you my dear,






     Greetings to you my dear,

    Calvary gretings in the name of our lord the word cretor
i knw this letter may come to you as a surprise,but I beseech you to take your time
    and go through the content carefully as the decision you may take will go off a long
    way to save souls. I am Mrs jurianabel.michel. aging widow of 67 years old suffering
    from long time cancer. I took a certain decision of disposing my inherited fund (US
    $8.5 million dollars) for charity. And I needed a very honest and God fearing who can
    withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity work. My contact to you is to
    entrust the fund to you for the purpose of heading the charity work.
    
    I found your email address from the event calendar of the year and after some prayers
    to the LORD, i decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to help,
    handle the fund in good faith for the sake of less privilege around you.

    my husband people are after his money that is why the killed him,i know they may be
    the cost of my illness but my god will fight for me,that is why i want the money to be
    use for charity works before anything happens to me

    I uphold this decision because I do not have any child who will inherit this money
    after I die. I want your urgent reply so that I will serve you with necessary information
    and the deposit slip which the bank issued to me as next of kin to the money.
    
    Really I summoned courage to contact you with faith that you will not fail me because
    I am keenly in need of your assistance. I proposed of disposing 30 percent of the
    total money for yourself. You must neither fail me nor fail millions of less privilege
    outside there. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved 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 confidence and trust in the
    accomplishment of the charity work as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my
    last wish. I will appreciate your quick reply.

     respond me With my private email [jurianabel.michel@yahoo.com]
     God bless you,
    Mrs jurianabel.michel


 
   
 
   


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