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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 Ida Banneth <te.ahmed246@gmail.com>
Reply-To: idabanneth54@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:33:14 +0100
Subject: Peace of the lord be with you and your family.

Dear friend
Peace of the lord be with you and your family.

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 attitude of his adopted child that do away
with some property as the only son , When my late husband was alive he
deposited the sum of US$ 14.2m (fourteen million two hundred thousand
dollars) in a bank in Burkina Faso, Presently this money is still in
bank. And My Doctors 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 fund , 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 works 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, if so please do
not hesitate to indicate your interest to me.

I wait to see your response.

My regards,
Mrs Ida Banneth
written from Hospital

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