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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. Fatima Khalid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fctlotft@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 09:39:55 +0100
Subject: Letter of Intent!

Dear Sir/Ma,
 
Please permit me a few minutes of your time to introduce myself, I am
the wife of the former Sudanese leader, Omar al-Bashir, my name is
Fatima Khalid, am sure you would be surprise reading from me as we
have not met before.
 
Since the recent removal of my husband from office by the military, my
family had been handicapped, threatened on daily basis, and
perpetually engulfed in fear. We can’t wait to escape from our hideout
before being traced and killed by the opposition leaders.
 
The actions, threats and potential revenge of the oppositions on my
family may seem reasonable and justified, especially when considers
the physical cash sum recovered from my husband. The same cash I had
been pleading with him to inject back into the country’s system for
development, infrastructures and poverty alleviation. It would have
been nice that in the verge of their anger, that the oppositions also
took out time to grant my children and I some audience, at least to
hear our own side of the story before apportioning blames and
targeting our lives secretly.
 
Following the tension and threat to life, my children and I decided to
manage to escape to a Neighboring country, from where we hope to
connect to someone reliable, someone kind hearted, someone who can
feel and understand our predicaments, perhaps someone like you,
someone who can save our lives by accepting to help handle some little
fortune in cash, that I managed to retrieve from my husband and hid
somewhere out of Africa, before this problem started.
 
As a potential partner, all necessary legal documents would be
changed to your name, to enable the release of the funds to you by the
financial Company where the fund is kept. Upon release, I would
appreciate that 20% of the money is given to charity as our little
contribution to the society, while the remaining goes into any
lucrative business of your choice, and to completely be managed by you
as my family is not business inclined.
 
We would seriously appreciate that you help us with traveling and
residential permit in your country on receiving the funds, as I
consider rewarding your assistance with 20% of the remaining 80%. I
will discuss the exact amount and my hiding place on receiving your
response.
 
Thanks.
Fatima Khalid

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