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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: Donna Louise <donnalouise11954@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: May the peace of God be with You:

Hello My Good Friend,


I'm contacting you through this medium because i need an urgent investment assistance in your country. My names are Mrs. Donna Louise Mclnnes a widow, a citizen of (Canada) but presently based in Spain since my life with my late husband, who worked with Canada embassy herein Spain for Ten years before he died in 2017. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only Six days and i myself have been suffering from ovarian cancer disease. At this moment i am about to end the race like this because the illness has gotten to a very bad stage, without any family members and no child. I hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to entrust on you for the mutual benefit of the orphans and the less privileges ones. I have some funds I inherited from my late husband, the total sum of (€10,000,000,00) deposited with the Ibercaja Bank Spain. Having known my present health status, I decided to entrust this fund to you believing that you will utilize it the way i am going to instruct herein.

Therefore I need you to assist me and reclaim this money and use it for Charity works, for orphanages and gives justice and help to the poor, needy and to promote the words of God and the effort that the house of God will be maintained says The Lord. Jeremiah 22:15-16.


It will be my pleasure to compensate you with 35% percent of the total money for your effort in handling the transaction, 5% percent for any expenses that may occur during the international transfer process while 60% of the money will go to the charity project.


All I require from you is sincerity and ability to complete God task without any failure. It will be my pleasure to see that the bank has finally release and transfer the fund into your bank account therein country even before I die here in the hospital, because of my present health status everything need to be process rapidly as soon as possible. I am waiting for your immediate reply, if only you are interested for further details of the transaction and execution of this humanitarian project for the glory and honor of God


Best Regards
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Donna Louise.

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