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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. Nicole Benoite Marois" <mrsnicolemar@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.marois@yandex.com
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:47:07 +0100
Subject: Greetings dear friend

Hello dear.

How are you today? hope you are fine and in good health. I sent this
mail praying it will found you in a good condition of health, since I
myself are in a very critical health condition in which I sleep every
night without knowing if I may be alive to see the next day. I prayed
over this issue before contacting you and of which i got you email id
from the international directorate email data search. I am writing
this mail to you with heavy sorrow in my heart, this massage might
come to you as a surprise but i choose to reach you through internet
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. Please
give me this little chance to explain myself to you, I would have like
to meet you face to face before departing from this mother earth but
due to my illness which will deprive me the opportunity of meeting you
in person and even if I die on the process of this operation I will
still praise the God ALMIGHTY.

My name is Mrs. Nicole Benoite Marois. i am a dying woman and i
decided to donate what I have to you for charity work/assistance to
less privileged people in the society. I am 62 years old and I was
diagnosed of cancer for about 4 years ago, immediately after the death
of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for and because my
doctor told me that i would not last for the period of one year due to
cancer problem. Because of my health, I have some funds I inherited
from my late husband, the sum of ($16.1Million Dollars) and I needed a
very honest and God fearing person who can withdraw this money then
use the funds for Charity works. I want this money to be shared to the
less privileged since I do not have a child to inherit the money and
my late husband relatives are non believers and I don't want my
husband’s hard earn money to be used in an ungodly ways. Hence the
reason for taking this bold decision to summoned up courage to contact
you for this task, you must not fail me and the millions of the poor
people in our today world.

This money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the
true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long
or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on
my behalf since I cannot come over because of my illness or they get
it confiscated. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested
to any organization of your choice and distributed each year among the
charity organization, the poor and the motherless babies’ home. As
soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact and process
on how to claim my late husband money.
Thanks and God bless you,
Mrs.Nicole Benoite Marois.

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