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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: "Shirley Underwood" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lebnutsa@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:16:34 -0700
Subject: Hello, Please Read.

Greetings,

Please accept my greetings and i hope this messages meets you well today.

I'm Shirley Underwood a widow. I was a real estate consultant & developer in Ireland, that is what I did for a living until I developed a terminal illness that is making me not p r a c t i c a l l y fit to run my business that led me into w i n d i n g up my business 3 years ago and moved my capital and profit to a s e c u r i t y company in the U.S. due to the fact that my late husband was from Buffalo New York with the perception of distributing the f u n d s to the less privilege as I'm an orphan myself or support small business(s) that requires f u n d i n g.

The purpose of this email is to propose an investment plan to you using my f u n d s with the s e c u r i t y company in U.S. Regardless of w h e r e you are, in or OUTSIDE the US, I will be willing to support your business on the basis that 30 percent of your turnover from my capital given to you would be used for charity donations. This is absolutely risk f r e e and requires no p a y m e n t to acquire. I am doing this because I have less than 3 months to live. I t h e r e fore need a reliable fellow to champion my course thus receiving the f u n d s & investing it in private business and donating 30 percent of profit generated to the less privilege or if you are not into any business, you can receive the f u n d s as my next of kin and assist me in distributing it to the less privilege but you must be honest ,do not bother responding if you are not honest or sincere but if you are Reply me to this email if you are interested for further details.

With my best regards,
Shirley Underwood

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