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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: "Sarah Bernotat" <sbernota@uni-osnabrueck.de>
Reply-To: goodfamily234@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:25:34 +0200
Subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A?= My Dear In God We =?utf-8?q?Trust=2E?=




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My Dear In God We Trust. I am happy to contact you today.
My Donation To You in good faith.

With Due Respect and Humility, i was compelled to write you under humanitarian ground. My Name is Mrs Flovrdlila Pimgkrm, Philippine Origin but married with Late Sir Ratnavale from UNITED KINGDOM UK. I have took a personal decision to donate what I inherited from my late husband to the Charity organization, less privilege, assistance of the poor widows, Motherless babies, Charity orphans CHRISTIAN OR MUSLIM. I have decided to donate a fund through Credit Account of (£2, 5000.00 GBP)(Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand GBP) to you for this assignment, i don't know you in person but God knows you, so contacting you for this Assignment is a direction from the holy spirit of God to donate this fund outside this Country through you as my late husband has already donated alot in this Country LONDON.

Your urgent response is required in this matter due to my present critical condition of my health, it was a Sister nurse working in this hospital that helped me to type this message, because I am loosing strenght every munites of the day. All I need from you is prayers that God will accept my soul incase I didn't survive this surgery. Also pray for the soul of my late Husband to rest in peace. we are visitors on this earth and we must be very careful in whatever we do so that our soul will not be a waste. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the mighty God must serve him in spirit and Truth.

I am 68 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer since the past 4 years, immediately after the death of my husband. We were both married for many years without a child, I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money. My late husband was The chairman/CEO of Auto spare parts industries company here in LONDON. If you are interested and worthy to be trusted with this, do contact me for more details. I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY.

Yours Sincerely,

Mother Mrs Flovrdlila Pimgkrm,

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