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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: test@poopesh.com
Reply-To: oliveirarose086@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:52:52 -0700
Subject: 20,000,000.00 GBP

Please kindly accept my apology for sending you this email without
your consent. I believe you are a highly respected
personality,considering the fact that I sourced your profile from the
peoples search database on Google.com during my Deseret search for a
partner whom can assist me in taking bringing the dreams of my late
husband come through. I am Mrs Rose Oliveira , suffering from
cancerous ailment. I was married to Sir Anna Christopher, an English
shipping tycoon notable for his great charitable activities before his
death in April 2nd, 2012.

When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of Twenty Million
Pounds Sterling (20,000,000.00 GBP)which were derived from his vast
estates and investment in capital market with his bank here in UK and
named me as the beneficiary of this trust fund.(All records are kept
with my family lawyer)presently, this money is still with the Bank. My
Doctor told me recently, that I have limited days to live due to the
cancerous problems that i have been suffering from. Though what
bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition with the
cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen me, I have decided to
donate this fund to you and i want you to use this gift which comes
from my Late husbands effort to establish a charity home for the
upkeep of widows, widowers,orphans,destitute,the down-trodden,
physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to
be genuinely handicapped financially. I took this decision because I
do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband
relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my
husband hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill perceived
ventures, which is the reason i took this bold decision. I do not need
any telephone communication in this regard due to my deteriorating
health and because of the presence of my husband relatives around me.
You can contact me through my personal email address:
oliveirarose086@gmail.com

Please assure me that you will act just as I have stated herein.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Remain Blessed,
Mrs Rose Oliveira
Email: oliveirarose086@gmail.com

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