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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: "Ruth Smith" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsruthsmith30@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 11:26:21 +0200
Subject: MRS SIDEK ZAITON have been called to glory

Dear Friend,

May the blessing of the Good Lord be with you and your family.

I was busy for the past weeks trying to figure out a possible means 0f reaching you, not until when I got access to MRS SIDEK ZAITON to some file some few days back. I hope you know that MRS SIDEK ZAITON have been called to glory. The Charity Project of US$5,000,000.00 million (Five Million U.S.Dollars) donation which she was having with her correspondent bank will be authorized to be transferred to you as next of kin as soon as you respond to this message.

The fund will be transferred to your bank account without much suffering on you since it was not possible through my Office some time ago to relocate the fund into a private account. The fund is presently with a bank which will not cause any harm to facilitate to you without restrictions and policies.

Please reply so I can link you up with the Bank and the account officer in charge with modalities.

Kindly respond through my private email address mrsruthsmith30@gmail.com

Will await your prompt response.

Regards

MRS. RUTH SMITH
LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE

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