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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: Veronica Oetoro <veronica.oetoro@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:32:38 +0100
Subject: Veronica Oetoro

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs. Veronica Oetoro from Indonesia, a member Indonesian tropical
forest management team. A widow to late Engineer Agung Oetero a Christian
Convert, I was diagnosed for esophageal cancer about two years ago
immediately after the death of my husband. As i lay on my sick bed here in
Hospital, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it
is quite obvious that I wouldn't live more,
according to my doctor, since It has defiled all forms of medical
treatment, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage
that no hope for me to be a living person again.

My late husband was killed during the France raid against terrorist in
Libya where he work as an engineer in Libyan National oil corporation and
during the period of our marriage we could not produce any child my late
husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited all his business
and wealth. the doctors has advised me that I may not live for more than
Four months, so I now decided to divide the part of this wealth, to
contribute to the development of the church in Asia, building of schools
with good water especially in Sumatera western Indonesia where I come from.
Create solution to problem of less privileged ones and orphanage homes.

Please I want you to note the fund is lying in a bank in Jakarta Indonesia
and upon receiving your willingness to help me carry out with this project
I will instruct my family lawyer to file in an application for the transfer
of the money in your name as my condition can no longer permit me to carry
on with this Project since I am still undergoing medical treatment in UK.

Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred will be used for
the said purpose even though I am late then, because I have come to find
out that wealth acquisition without Christ is vanity and I made the promise
to God that the fund will be use to build his temple and help the less
privileged.

God will be with you and if you know that you can help I will be very happy
to hear from you Please, also send reply and all correspondences to my
lawyer remember to send your private contact details for effective
communications .Below is the contact of my family lawyer.

David Irianto
email:iriantodvdchamber@gmail.com

Respectfully
Veronica Oetoro

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