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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: "Kateline J. Lowe" <clarableiz03@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 03:32:22 +0800
Subject: ABOUT MY WILL

Hi,

Greetings, Please let this not sound strange to you because my only
surviving lawyer who would have done this died Early this year.I got your
email I.D from your country's guestbook online.

I'm Mrs. Kateline J. Lowe from Ireland, born in the state of Ohio USA. I am
legally married to Mr. John Wiley Lowe, a British citizen born and
brought up in the USA, I lived in Switzerland with my husband for 32 years
before we moved down to the U.K in 1985 after my husband's retirement in
1984. I am 75 years old by the grace of God, I am a God fearing person, and
I am suffering from long time (illness) cancer of the bone (leukemia) and
throat Cancer. This illness has troubled me for a long time.

All indications from my doctor and medical analysis is that my condition is
really deteriorating and getting worse; and it is quite obvious that I will
not live more than three OR Four months, although it is God who decides.
This is because the cancer disease has gotten to a very bad stage that
there is no hope for me to be living again. My dear husband was involved
with the January 2000 Kenya airways plane crashed as you can see on the
news line website.ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm ) 40 years
period of my marriage life, still we could not produce any child, my late
husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited some part of his
business and money in the bank. Today I have decided to donate and
contribute to you, your Country and to the less privileged, charity homes,
and orphanage homes and to those displaced by wars going on in the
middle-east and around the world.

Since the death of my husband I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my
belongings and deposited all the sum of USD37.6Million Dollars with the
International Monetary Funds Bank in the United States.

Presently,I am in India and this money is still with International Monetary
Funds Bank, the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward
to receive the funds for keeping it so long or rather issue a letter of
authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf, before they get it
confiscated.

Am always with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing
treatment for cancer in India. I have since lost my ability to talk.
It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization
like charities and the poor or motherless babies home.

I Hope you are a God fearing person, also use this money to fund orphanages
and widows.

As soon as I receive your response I will give you a letter of
authorization to contact the International Monetary Funds Bank.

Hoping to hear from you

BR,
Mrs. Kateline J. Lowe

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