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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. NANCY SPENCER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ncpencer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:06:03 -0700
Subject: RE: WE NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY TO THIS PROPOSAL/LETTER

FROM: M/S. NANCY SPENCER

Hello Dear,

I know you will be surprised to read these email and apart being surprise you may be skeptical to reply me based on what is happening around the internet world as one has to be very careful because a lot of scammers are out there to scam innocent citizens like you and it has made it very difficult for people to believe anything that comes through internet but I assure you 100% True and risk free

Anyway, I am contacting you in regards to this particular fund belonging to my late husband and the reason is because I need trust worthy person like you who I can fully trust to receive the fund oversea for a profitable Investment and Charity work that will help less privilege children all over the world if need be.

My name is Ms. Nancy Spencer and I use to operate a non-profit charity organization here in Liverpool, UK. I have been cheated before by someone I trusted who ran away with our funds therefore I want to be very careful in choosing the kind of person I will be dealing with.


The vault agrees to be using their emissary as courier for onward delivery of the consignment to the port of final destination in Canada after Mr. Hassan Hamid disappointed us out of his greediness/selfishness and disappeared with our money till date.

At first, our agreement was 20% which 5% should be set aside to procuring any expenses upon delivery of the total sum of the money US$5.5 Million Dollars, 57kilos of gold bar and gold dust plus 1500carat of diamond stones, but he later changed our initial agreement with him and demanding for 60% of the total sum.

Please, if you can assist/help us retrieve the consignment box (money) from the delivery consultant, as the firm/vault does not know the real content of the consignment, we will be very happy to compensate you with 30% of the total sum.

Furthermore, I will give you the contact details of the delivery agent so that you can speak with him directly and then take delivery of the consignment box (fund) to be delivered to you on our behalf then you will help us to process our traveling documents after delivery is being successfully made to you so that we can relocate to your country to continue our education.

You will advise us on whatever profitable ventures which we shall invest on our percentage when you have taken possession of the consignment. Please, I would also need an experienced person like you to assist us set up; develop a good profitable business investment project that will yield us income before we complete our education.

You will be in charge of the investment and you will also be entitled to an agreed percentage from the investment. I will be expecting your urgent response to the message.

Your maximum cooperation is highly needed. Do kindly respond to this mail and I will furnish you with more details with regards to the transaction.

Kindly provide us your full name and address, your occupation and direct telephone number to enable us to be contacting you when necessary.

Thank you and God bless as I will be expecting to hear from you. You can reply me through the following Direct Email address: nicy.spencer@gmail.com

Yours sincerely,



MRS. NANCY SPENCER

Benh vien. ChoRay
201b-Nguyen Chi Thanh P.12 Q5 TP.HCM
DT: 08-38554137 - 08-38554138
Fax: 08-38557267


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