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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.Aziza Zubair" <mrsazizazubair876@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:14:43 -0800
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE.


Hello my dearest beloved,

I am Mrs.Aziza Zubair

Please my dearest beloved, do not feel embarrassed or disturbed by my email
to you. I am married to Late Sir Gerald White Zubair, a prominent business
man and a pro-human right activist here in Burkina Faso, West Africa
before his untimely death in 2013.

During my late husband's lifetime, he deposited the sum of EURO
4,630.000.00 € in one of the leading banks here and informed me concerning
it. We intended to use this fund for charity and investment purposes for
the up keeping/ future of our daughter Juliet Zubair, who is currently 15
years of age.

I returned back home with my daughter Juliet from France, after the sudden
death of my late husband, and decided to settle permanently with my
daughter due to the way my late husband's brothers started selling off our
properties because of my situation.

I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing and investing
this money for the future and education of Juliet Zubair (my daughter ),
since I am incapable of doing so due to my deteriorating/ bad health
situation occasioned by cancer which had lead to my doctors informing me
that I might not last. Presently, my situation has worsened that I am
unable to do things on my own without the help of my little Juliet.

I do not intend to leave this fund as my daughter is too young to handle it
as desired by my late husband, also, my late husband`s relatives are not
worthy to be trusted with this fund due to their wickedness towards my
daughter and I since my condition deepened.

I have discussed this issue with my daughter and have resolved to make
available to you 15% of the total money for your efforts and labor. I shall
be expecting your reply- mail so that I will give you the contact of this
bank with some information to enable the concerned bank release this fund
to you without difficulties, while undertaking this noble responsibility.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Mrs.Aziza Zubair.

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