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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: Mrs Fumiko Hisayo <diorondon@rondonopolis.mt.gov.br>
Reply-To: <mrsfumikohisayo@zoho.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:20:13 +0100
Subject: My Wish To The Poor

With warm hearts I offer my friendship, my greetings, I hope this letter meets you in good time this celebration time.I write you this letter from a sorrowful and emotional Laddered soul that needs compassion from a kind and good spirited person to carry out my last wishes and I will very much appreciate it and promise you that you will not regret this day as long as your heart is pure and sincere.I am Mrs Fumiko Hisayo, 51 years old from Ota-ku Tokyo Japan. I came across your profile while making a research on face book and AMERICAN medicine on google so I saw your profile on the site and my spirit pushed me to contact you for help.I am suffering from a long time cancer of the breast and throat, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I can't work or do any stressful thing, according to my doctors they have advised me that I may not live for the next two months so i want to use this opportunity to scarifies all my inheritance as a Christmas to the poor people

This is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies home,and was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child. My husband Late Alexandra Baio who worked with America Embassy Washington D.C for eleven years before he died in a fatal motor accident before his death in the year 2013 we were true Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of $8.3 Million (Eight Million, three hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) into my non residential account.My late husband brother took away $2,800,000 from me and ran away without knowing that my late husband who died in a car accident left some money in my name and total amount left in my name was $5 million and after selling all my properties I realized $8.3 million and deposit it into my non residential account in Turkey. So the total amount I have now is $8.3 million dollars.I have decided not to have anything to do with my late husband
 
I have no one else in this life.And the best part of it is, the paying bank told me in the letter that they can have the funds released to my approved person that was authorized by me so that the funds will be transferred to his or her bank account anywhere in the world.Presently, i am using my laptop in the hospital at london where I have been undergoing treatment for my sickness. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only more 2 months to live.It is my last wish to see at least 60% of this money is invested/donated to any organization/business of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization, e.g. the poor homes, the motherless babies home where I came from and you can use the 40% to help yourself since I do not have more than two months to leave in this world.What i seek for is a kind and good spirited person who will carry out my last wishes and before I wrote you today I prayed and my spirit gave me the confidence to send you this email.

I want you to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd.All i need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when received by you will be used for the said purpose. Nowadays it is difficult to trust but I don’t know why my spirit still accept and approved me to email you about this because i do not want someone who will run away with my money and not fulfilling my wishes, you are the first and last person i will contact about this matter.You can contact me on my email and please I want you to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.

Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for an individual or organization for this same purpose. Feel free to go into this with me.Please endeavor to use 60% of this money for Charity organization donation and less privileged and have 40% for yourself. However, I am sincerely seeking your confidence in this transaction, which propose with my free mind and as a person of integrity from God.Please assure me that you will accept accordingly as I stated here and your response would be highly appreciated. As soon as i receive your reply, I will attach to you my current picture in the hospital so you will see the situation this sickness have taken me into. i will be waiting to hear from you.
 
Regards
Mrs Fumiko Hisayo
Email: mrsfumikohisayo@zoho.com

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