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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Emily Beneson." <qigddw@t-online.de>
Reply-To: "emily.beneson@hotmail.com" <emily.beneson@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:19:20 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Thanksfor your understanding.


Mrs. Emily Beneson.
N° 20 Avenida 16 Treichville.
Abidján, Ivory Coast.

Donation for Humanitarian and Charity
Service

My Greetings,
I once again try to reach you as my earlier message to you returned
undelivered.

I am presently very ill in a hospital from the Stroke that happened to me
shortly after the death of my husband. I also thank God for the help and
assistance i receiving from a nurse in the hospital who is also a believer
(Nurse Felicia).

I have contacted you because there is the sum of €2,400,000.00 (Two Million
Four Hundred Thousand Euros) deposited in a bank here by my late husband
and i have chosen to donate this money so that you can use it for
humanitarian and charity services.

If you look round, you can see that there are a lot of people suffering
from many diseases and there can never be a better time than now to show
them love and let them know that someone out there cares.

I strongly believe that if not for God, i wouldn”t be alive today
considering the degree of my sickness at first. I have therefore decided
for this my inherited fund be used to show that God is love and ever
faithful.

Again if you look round, you can see that there are a lot of handicapped
children in many charity homes suffering from things like Autism and other
handicaps and even adults suffering from many health challenges that need
help and without hope for a better tomorrow.

Please if i reach you this time around as i am hopeful, endeavor to get
back to me as soon as possible so that this humanitarian project can be
completed to the benefit of this in need of our love and support .

I wait for your urgent reply,
Mrs. Emily Beneson.



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