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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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Fraud email example:

From: Office <sabbb003@aol.fr>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:38:11 -0500
Subject: Please can you help me rescue my Daughter?



Please can you help me rescue my Daughter?


It's my pleasure to have contact with you, based on the critical condition I find myself, though, it's not financial problem, but my health, you might have know that cancer is not what to talk about at home I have been in the hospital for a year and 5 months now with my adopted Daughter who is still a kid I am married to Mr. Abaulkarim banneth who worked with Tunisia embassy in Burkina Faso for nine years before he died in the year 2008.We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for five days.


Since his death I decided not to remarry because of the attitude of our adopted Daughter who so much love us as her parents i cannot live her suffering i want somebody who have fear of God to help me take good care of her , When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$ 14.2m (fourteen million two hundred thousand dollars) in a bank in Burkina Faso, Presently this money is still in bank.


And My Doctors told me that I don't have much time to live because of the cancer problem and i dont want to live my Daughter for my Husband family people because they are very wicked to us and they dont like both me and the Daughter as we are both Orphan, Having known my condition I decided to hand over this fund to a responsible person that have fear of God to take care of my Daughter and less-privileged people with this fund , please utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here I want you to take 80% Percent of the total money for my Daughter and yourself While 20% of the money will go to charity works and helping the Old people who have nothing to eat.


I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by the Government and I dont want my Husband people to know about this money. I grew up as an Orphan and I don't have anybody as my family member, if you are really interested to help me please do not hesitate to indicate your interest to me. Please reply to my private email address mrshadeelbanneth@fastmail.com so that my Daughter can be seeing everything ok




I wait for your response.
My regards,
Mrs.Hadeel Banneth
written from Hospital



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