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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: "Kalyna A" <"www."@topaz.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: <mrskalynaandrew@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 04:50:41 -0800
Subject: Reply me please

I’m Kalyna Andrew Supre, the wife to Geert Supre,
a regional finance director in europe for Vanguard Logistics Services in Antwerp died untimely
in an Egypt Air crash of 2016.
You can view this web site for your perusal to find the name of my late husband.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/20/egyptair-crash-who-are-the-victims-of-flight-ms804/
I’m from Belgium, I lost my husband few months ago and I have been living with the pain till date.
We are hospitable people and decided to serve mankind to the best of our ability.
Since the death of my husband Geert I have lived with the memories,
fighting effortlessly to live a normal life but all to no avail.
I suffered psychologically and shortly was diagnosed of Cancer.
I write to you, having sourced your address from a database in my late husband’s
internet dozier after fervent prayers. Before his death,
my family had a joint account and deposited the sum of $45,000,000
with a security firm in USA. The purpose of this email
is to propose an i n v e s t m ent purposes.Kind reply me if your interested

Mrs K.A

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