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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: "Nora Aliti" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <noraaliti60@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 11:13:49 -0300
Subject: FROM HOSPITAL

My dearest,
This is Miss Nora Aliti from Trinidad and Tobago. I am writing from the hospital in Côte d'Ivoire, therefore, this email is very urgent. I want you to know that I am dying in the hospital and that I do not know if I will see a few more days. My doctor told me that I had been poisoned and that my liver had been damaged and that I could only live for a few months.
The reason I contacted you today is because I know that my stepmother wanted to kill me and take my inheritance from my late father. I have a little foster child named Jonathan Walter that I adopted in this country when my late father was alive and $ 4.5 million dollars that I inherited from my late father. My stepmother and her children are behind Walter at this time because they discovered that Walter knew the poison, and because I gave him the documents of the fund the day my stepmother poisoned my food, so they do not. He wants Walter to expose them, so they're doing everything they can to kill him.

I want you to help him out of this country with the money, he is the only one who takes good care of me here in this hospital right now and even this email that you are reading now, he is the one that is helping me.

I want you to contact Walter with this information below:
Name: Jonathan Walter.
Address: Rue De La Princess L / G 152 Cocody
Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Email: jtnwalter6@yahoo.co.jp

He will give you the money documents and will direct you to a well-known lawyer that I have appointed, the lawyer will help you change the money documents in your name to allow the bank to transfer the money.

This is the favor I need when I have obtained the money:

(1) Give 20% of the money to Jonathan Walter since he has been there to help me with my illness and I have promised to support him in life. I want you to take it with you to your country and establish it as your son.

(2) Give 30% of the money to disabled people and charities, then the rest is yours.
Note; This should be a code between you and Walter in this "Hospital" transaction, any email from you, the lawyer to whom you will direct it, without this code "Hospital" is not from the lawyer, Walter, the bank or myself as I do not. I know what will happen to me in the next days.

(3) The lawyer's name is Bar Rufus Allen. And let Walter send you your international passport to be sure who you're dealing with. Walter is so small, therefore, guide him.

And if I do not receive news from you, I will look for another person or organization.

Do not forget to contact Jonathan Walter with his email jtnwalter6@yahoo.co.jp
May Almighty God bless you and use you to fulfill my wish.
Pray for me always

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