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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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Fraud email example:

From: wu18293@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 12:48:22 +0000
Subject: Dear God Select;

Untitled form

To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhuL2PLpAOoYKgFK99_cfu54s0g4BYVFZeE53qQlVrGvxYXA/viewform?vc
Dear God Select;

I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great sorrow
in my heart, My Name is Mrs. Samira samuel, and I am contacting you my
country is Tunisia I want to tell you this because I don't have any
other option than to tell you as I was touched to open up to you:

I married to Mr. Akil samuel who worked with Tunisia Embassy in Burkina
Faso for nine years before he died in the year 2014.We married for eleven
years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only
five days. Since his death I decided not to remarried, When my late husband
was alive he deposited the sum of US$ 15.5M (Fifteen Million Five hundred
Thousand Dollars) in a bank in Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso
in west Africa Presently, this money is still in bank. He made this money
available for exportation of Gold from Burkina Faso mining.

Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the period of seven
months due to cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke
sickness .Having known my condition I decided to hand you over this money
to take care of the less-privileged people, you will utilize this money the
way I am going to instructed here.I want you to take 40% of the total money
for your personal use While 60% of the money will go to charity"
people in the street and helping the orphanage. I grew up as an Orphan and
I don't have any body as my family member, just to endeavor that the
house of God is maintained. Am doing this so that God will forgive my sins
and accept my soul because these sicknesses have suffered me so much.

As soon as I receive your reply I will give you the contact of the bank in
Burkina Faso and I will also instruct the Bank Manger to issue you an
authority letter that will prove you the present beneficiary of the money
in the bank that's if you assure me that you will act accordingly as I
Stated here, do contact me on above private email for
more details samira0070@aol.com


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