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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: "ALEJANDRO DOS PINTO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: < ftcmtt232@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 19:54:49 +0200
Subject: Regards to us$10 million i donated to you for charity work

Dear Friend,
 
Greetings in the name of God Please let this not sound strange to you for my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year.
 
I prayed and got your email id from your country guestbook. I am MR.ALEJANDRO DOS PINTO from Portugal, I am 58 years old, I am suffering from a long time cancer of the lungs which also affected my brain. From all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage But Doctors are not God.
 
I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married to my late Wife for twenty years without a child, my Wife was a victim of May 27th 2006 Earthquake disaster in JAVA Indonesia that killed over 5,000 people Before her death we were true believers. Since her death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all our inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of 10million dollars with a Bank in United Arab Emirate Dubai.
 
Presently, this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote me to come forward and claim my money because they have kept it for so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they will get the Money confiscated and put the money into their bank Vault.
 
Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital here in Switzerland where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. My doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless babies home, since i do not have a child of my own or a family to will this Money to.
 
I want you as God fearing person to use this money to fund church, mosque, orphanages and widows, I took this decision, before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank In UNITED ARAB EMIRATE DUBAI for you to contact the bank on my Order for them to remitt the money into your account and you will use it as i said so that God will have mercy on my soul when i pass out on this earth.
 
I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of my fund whereby the UNITED ARAB EMIRATE BANK WILL ACT IMMEDIATELY THEY RECEIVE THE LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION.
 
Please Provide this information of yours to enable me draft a letter to my bank account officer to enable him issue you a letter of authorization.
 
 
FULL NAMES:__________
 
SEX: _____
 
AGE: ______
                                                        
MARITAL STATUS:_______________
 
COUNTRY: ______
 
CONTACT ADDRESS:________________________
 
PHONE NO#___________FAX NO#_______________
 
OCCUPATION:______________
 
 
Please get back to me in my private email address AT ( ajandrpintos@hotmail.com )
HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON, AND ASSURE ME THAT YOU WILL ACT ACCORDINGLY AS I STATED HEREIN
 
WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY
 
YOURS IN CHRIST,
MR. ALEJANDRO DOS PINTO
EMAIL:ajandrpintos@hotmail.com

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