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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: "Ms. Angela Griffith" <vidavida55237@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: angelagri2018@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:05:01 GMT
Subject: IT'S URGENT.

Hey! Hello there!,

Good day to you and the entire members of your family out there. I am greeting you from my city, New Jersey, United States. We were originally settled by the Dutch and called New Netherlands. Once the British took control of the land, they changed the name to New Jersey, from the Channel Isle of Jersey and split the colony into East Jersey and West Jersey.

I guess you don't know me, but that's not the point of this email. I am Angela by name, it is so sad to write you about my late daddy's mysteriously death during his business trip, at first. My daddy of blessed memory by name late Griffith Walsh. Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by cardiac arrest, unexpected loss of heart function in Burkina Faso on (16 June 2018) during his business trip of gold in Burkina Faso and are left with ($8,500,000.00) on his offshore account there.

My father used my name as his next of kin and the inheritor to the money before his death, and he left a WILL with the bank that restrained me from accessing the money here unless I got married or found someone from overseas who will help me and invest the money wisely. As a university undergraduate and really dont know what to do.

The code of his Will forbids me to acquire such amount of money without been married or found someone from overseas who will help me invest the money wisely. He made the deposit as a fund belonging to his business in order not to raise eyebrow.

It is on this basis that I am contacting you for assisting me to receive the money, I located the bank, and have also discussed the possible transfer of the fund. I forced myself to contact the bank, but the bank response was that I should look for someone to help me secure the money as instructed by my late father. I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of my late father's tragic death. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life.

I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Whether you can honestly help me as you would do to your own child?. While I continue with my education I will like to invest this money into lucrative business but I need you to put me through.

Please I am now seeking for your assistance to help me receive this money in your account abroad so that you can invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business of your choice because this is my only hope in life. I am willing to offer you 30% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.

Regards
Angela

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