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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. Cara Johnson" <anngallagher820@gmail.com>
Reply-To: carajohnson0033@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:24:49 +0100
Subject: Hello dear confident one,

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Hello dear confident one,
My name is Mrs. Cara Johnson and I am from Berlin Germany and I got
married to Late Engineer Lucas Joe, I met my husband when he visited
Germany in 1999 and he was working both in Paris France embassy here
in Germany, he retired from work and went back to his home country
Benin Republic. Both of us lived in the city here when he was alive,
since after his death his families became against me and hated me
because I did not bear a child for my husband their late brother
before he died.


Because of that reason they have taken all our properties both our
house here and in Paris, they don't care to know about me if I am
alive or not, what they are after is to hear that I am dead because of
my health that is killing me now. They have taken all the properties
but they dont have access to our fund sum of US$5,500,000.00 Million
Dollars in the bank. So they are treating me bad I really cannot allow
them to use the fund because they all hate me because I am childless.
I have decieded to hand over this fund to you so that you will manage
it very well for the charity purpose believing that I will receive my
healing after making this offer to God. Please what I need is your
honesty and trust, my doctor have told me that I will not survive my
present situation, I am only hoping for God's miracle hand to heal me.
What I really need is your trust first of all in handling this fund
and not misusing it.

Thank you,
Mrs. Cara Johnson
Email: carajohnson0033@gmail.com

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