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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: MRS HANNAH SAWADOGO <hannahsawadogobf@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hannahsawadogo@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:16:48 -0700
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU??

Dearest Chosen From God,

I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great sorrow
in my heart, My Name is Mrs Hannah Sawadogo, and I am contacting you from
my country Tunisia I want to tell you this because I don't have any other
option , I am married to Mr. Sawadogo Alah who worked with Tunisia embassy
in Burkina Faso before he died in the year 2005,We were married for eleven
years without a child.

He died after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. Since his
death I decided not to remarry, When my late husband when he was alive he
deposited the sum of *US$ 10.5m (Ten Million Five hundred Thousand
Dollars) *in a bank in Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso in west
Africa Presently this money is still in the bank. He was an exportation of
Gold and Cottons from Burkina Faso mining Exploration.

Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the period of seven
months due to cancer problem and Fibroid i had when i was still at my youth
age.
In this my condition I decided to hand you over this money to take care of
the less-privileged people,Orphanages and Motherless babies .

You will get 40 Percent(%) of the total money for your personal use While
60 Percent (%) of the money will go to charity,Orphanages and less
Priviledges" people and the needful. I was an Orphan and I don't have any
body as my family member, just to endeavour that the house of God is
maintained. Am doing this so that God will forgive my sins and accept my
soul because these sicknesses have suffered me so much.

I wish you can help I shall give you the contact of the Bank in Burkina
Faso and Instruct Bank Manager to issue you an authority letter as the
owner of the fund that will make you the beneficiary of the money in the
bank.

I believe i can trust you??

From Mrs. Hannah Sawadogo.

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