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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: "Mr.Amancio Ortega" <mr.amancioortega@kumpulan-vokep3d2017.hol.es>
Reply-To: ortegaloveaman@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:22:19 +0100
Subject: Donation Fund




Greeting to you,

You have been gifted $2 MILLION USD in 2017 Donation Funds. Contact us at
this email for your claim: ( ortegaloveaman@gmail.com ) I hope this
information reach to you well as I know you will be curious to know why
how I selected you to receive a cash sum of $2,000,000,00 USD,our
information below is 100% legitimate,I Mr.Amancio Ortega and my wife
Rosalia fashion businessman and founding chairman of the Inditex fashion
group,of Zara clothing showrooms around the world,I and my wife Rosalia
mapping out
this donation funds every Year to 20 countries all over the world where
our company is been located in the world please see the link below:

http://fortune.com/2016/09/09/amancio-ortega-bill-gates-richest/

My wife and I decided to donate the sum of $2,000,000,00 USD to you as
part of our charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all
over the world from our $16.5 Billion Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to
help people before she died. We prayed and searched over the internet for
assistance because i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and
picked you. Rosalia my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put
on the internet for the world to see. my wife has cancer and she died at
Colchester regional hospital, my wife just didn't die but she was a great
person and I miss her so much and this is why I have decided to do one
thing I promised her forever. as you could see from the web page above,
am not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to
live. although am a Billionaire Investor and we have helped some charity
organizations from our Fund.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members,
Before she died we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to
other individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the
red cross, Haiti, hospitals in Truro where Rosalia underwent her cancer
treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight
cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with
our payout bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 40% of the
entire sum to our self for the remaining days because I am sick and am
writing you from hospital computer because I don't know when I will die.
To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($2,000,000.00 USD) which
have been donated solely to you, you are to send us

your full names.................
your contact address.....................
your personal telephone number...............
your Date of birth............................
your Marital Status............................
your Occupation................................
One Passport photographs or any of your valid Identity

so that I can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am
hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over
there in your country. Please, you have to do you part to also alleviate
the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you
have this money in your personal account because that is the only
objective of donating this money to you in the first place. I like to
re-assure you of the legitimacy of this services as we will not be
involved in any fraudulent act and will never be. Use the money wisely, we
only want to feel good by helping people this time of the year, this is
the only thing that makes my wife happy too even now that she is not here
with me anymore, we have too much to give away as
I only have a few months left on earth. I will advise you as the
prospective lucky Person to be calm not to loose this great opportunity
which millions of people are trying to entangle but the chances just
couldn't come for them because a lot of people are out there to discourage
them as they don't know how it works, and have never seen such
before.Thank you for
accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful You Can Google my name for
more information: Mr.Amancio Ortega.

God bless you

Mr.Amancio Ortega world's second-richest man Billionaire investor

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