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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: Susan Bikram <giftymmmmm@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Susan Bikram <ssusanbikram@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: hello dear

Please I am writing to you out of despair.

I was living with a foreign contractor who was a gold broker. I know he is not related to you but he is foreigner like you and share same surname with you, I got a child for him, in the same year he was attacked by pirates on the coast of Island of Malta.

Before the attack, a shipping company in Monrovia was supposed to ship 50 kg of gold which he bought but because of his death they didn't ship the gold.

I decided to wait, hoping that the family of my daughter's father would contact me, thus we can make a claim. But ever since, they never contacted us, which prompted me to call the company's lawyer that drafted the contract agreement.

He spoke with the company and invited me to come ,I have met with the company, after our deliberation ,they said they prefer to ship the gold to the family directly since I am not legally married to him.

Their lawyer asked me to invite the family for the gold or let them call him for directives. and sincerely, I am helpless with their decision, because I don't know his people, they never contacted us since the incident. which is extremely understandable that they don't know about us.

Therefore please, I wish to beg for your cooperation to stand as his relative / partner so that they can accept to release the gold back to me.

Please I pray you to help me for the sake of my child's support please, even if you can take 30% of gold sales please. I beg you please.

I am worried with a hope that you will reply soonest please.

Miss susan bikram

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