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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 Lisa T Banneth <misslisathomos25@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrslisabanneth@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:01:06 +0000
Subject: Peace of the lord be with you and your family.

Dear friend

It's my pleasure to have contact with you, based on the critical
condition I find mine self,

though, it's not financial problem, but my health, you might have know
that cancer is not what to talk about at home I am married to Mr.
Abaulkarim banneth, who worked with Tunisia embassy in Burkina Faso
for nine years before he died in the year 2008.We were married for
eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that
lasted for five days.

Since his death I decided not to remarry because of the atitude of his
adorpted child that do away with some property as the only son, When
my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $ 14.2m ) in a bank
in Burkina Faso, Presently this money is still in bank. And My Doctor
told me that I don't have much time to live because of the cancer
problem,

Having known my condition I decided to hand over this fund to a
responsible person that have fear of God to take care of the
less-privileged people with fond,

please utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here I want
you to take 30 Percent of the total money for your personal use While
70% of the money will go to charity people and helping the orphanage.
I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by the Government. I grew
up as an Orphan and I don't have anybody as my family member, I am
expecting your respond as soon as possible,

From Mrs Lisa T Banneth

Thanks, My best Regards,

written from Hospital

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