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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: Fatima Muhammad <fatimamuhammad@hanmail.net>
Reply-To: Fatima Muhammad <fatimamuhammad1010@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 01:20:36 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Sincerely Miss. Fatima


Hello My Dearest

Please I appeal to you to exercise a little
patience and read through my mail carefully, I am contacting you personally for an investment assistance and a long term business relationship in your Country and I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important issue, I will really like to have
a good business relationship with you that is why I decided to contact you today after my prayers and the spirit of God directed me to contact you due to the urgency of my situation at this point in time. My
life is in great danger as I am writing this email to you.

My name is Miss Fatima Muhammad a young medical student, my dearest it is my pleasure to contact you
for a business partnership venture which I intend to establish in your country. I would like to go into business partnership with you,
Though I have not met with you face to face before but I believe one has to risk confident in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount ($ 2.5, Million Dollars) which my late Father deposited on my name in the suspense account with one Bank before his Death.

My father was poisoned by his brother who capitalized on the fact that my father has no male child to inherit his wealth, my mother died when I was only 2 years old. Now I want you to help me claim and retrieve these funds from the Bank and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes. Now since the funds is deposited in the suspense account I cannot have access to the fund until it is transferred out from my late father's account that is why I am contacting you to assists me and see that the Bank here in my country transfer the funds into your personal or business account for to me to leave this country and meet you over there my education and the
investments.

My dearest if you can assistance to me, I will be pleased to offer you 30% of the total funds as compensation for your effort / input after the successful transfer of this funds into your nominated account overseas and again we are going to invest money together and share whatever profit we make together as partners, please kindly reply me immediately  if you are willing to assist me transfer and invest the money in your country I am waiting for your soonest response before ending of today for more details.

Thank you for your wiliness to help me and God bless you.
Yours Sincerely Miss. Fatima Muhammad

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