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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: "Marian Drake"<akshay.moondra@9star.in>
Reply-To: marian_drake13@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:44:46 +0100
Subject: I WILL HELP YOU!!!


Hello Dear, My name is Marian Drake 79 years old widow, I stay in Texas US=
A. I am a good merchant, I have several industrial companies and good share=
in various banks in the world. I spent all my life on investment and corpo=
rate business, all the way i lost my husband and two children in fatal acci=
dent that occur in November 5th 2000. I am a very greedy woman with all cos=
t i don't know much and care about people, since when I have an experience =
of my difficulty to sleep and give rest. later in the year 2016 December i =
was sent a letter of medical check up, as my personal doctor testify that i=
have a lung cancer, which can easily take off my life soon.I found it unea=
sy to survive myself, because a lot of my investment cannot be run and mana=
ge by me again. I quickly call up a pastor/prophet to give me positive thin=
king on this solution, as my adviser. He minister to me to share my propert=
y , wealth to motherless baby/orphanage homes/churches/Mosques/people that =
need money for survivor both student that need money/ business woman and ma=
n for their investment for future rising. So therefore i am writing this le=
tter to people who are really need help from me both student in college, to=
contact me urgently, so that i can make available preparation on that, esp=
ecially women of the day who are divorced by their husband, who cannot surv=
ive the means of feeding their self please contact me and stop weeping, as =
I have over $8.5m (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars)to distribut=
e out. probably let me know what you really need the money for, and if you =
can still help me to distribute money to the nearest orphanages homes near =
your town, because now am so much with GOD, am now born again and you will =
get 20% of the total money you will help me and distribute. May the lord bl=
ess you as you reach me, please to remind you, don't belong to a scam or an=
y act of fraudulent on internet. I will give more information to you as i a=
wait your response immediately. May God guide and protect you in all your e=
ndeavors. Best Regards, Marian Drake.

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