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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: Alicia Adora <scan@uniqueproperties.ae>
Reply-To: alicia_adora1@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 01:13:45 +0400
Subject: Accept in good faith and respond asap



Dear,

I am Mrs. Alicia Adora from Spain, I am 68 years old, i am suffering
from a long time cancer of the breast, from all indication my
conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I
can't work or do any stressful thing, 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. I was brought
up from a motherless babies home,and was married to my late husband
for twenty years without a child.

My Husband (Roberto Patrick) died in a fatal motor accident before his
death we were true Christians. Since his death I decided not to
re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum
of $8.3 million dollars wishes, And the best part of it is, the paying
bank in Istanbul Turkey told me in the letter that they can have the
funds released to my approved person that was authorized by me or
transferred to his bank account and if outside Istanbul Turkey then
transferred to his or her bank account. Presently, i am using my
laptop in the hospital at London United Kingdom where I have been
undergoing treatment for my sickness. I have since lost my ability to
talk and my doctors have told me that I have only more 2 months to
live. It is my last wish to see at least 60% of this money is
invested/donated to any organization/business of your choice and
distributed each year among the charity organization, e.g. the poor
homes, the motherless babies home where I came from. What i seek for
is a God fearing person like you ,who will carry out my last wishes
and before I emailed you today I prayed and the holy spirit gave me
the confidence to send you this email. I took this decision, before I
rest in peace because my time will soon be up. As soon as I receive
your reply I will give you the contact of the paying bank in Istanbul
Turkey.

All i need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when
received by you will be used for the said purpose, Nowadays there are
so much scams going on in the internet and it is difficult to trust
but I don’t know why the Holy spirit still approved me to email you
about this out of few email addresses i have from the internet, yours
was the only one that my mind convinced me to. You can contact me on
my private email address :alicia_adora1@outlook.com

Yours in faithfully,

Mrs. Alicia Adora

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