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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 Yara Mariam Abdulazeez <gw149637@gmail.com>
Reply-To: abdulazeezyaramariam@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 03:58:04 -0800
Subject: Re: Greetings.

Good day to you beloved friend.

Please let this not sound strange to you because I am not asking you
for money and no money is needed from you in helping me. I got your
email address on country guest books and I pray it is still valid. I
want to solicit your assistance in the discharge of my will, I am Mrs
Yara Mariam Abdulazeez, a native of Piraeus, London, and am aged 65
years suffering from endometrial cancer. Please, I want you to help me
create a charitable project in your community with the money that I
inherited from my deceased husband who was poisoned by a friend in
2016. I was brought up from a motherless baby's home and was married
to my late husband for twenty-nine years without a child.

My friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness and I
cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to
any of them anymore, so I sold all my inherited belongings and
deposited all with my bank. All I need is an honest person who will
use at least %90 of the funds as I instructed, then the rest will go
to you for helping me accomplish this mission because donating this
money to charity is the only legacy I can leave behind after my death.
No money is required from you to carry on with this project because it
is my heart desire to make a generous gift to you to work for a
charity in your community, I don't mind your religion, but I don't
know if I can trust you because there are greedy and fraudulent people
over the world especially on the internet. I will give you more
details as soon as I hear from you.

Please note this: make sure you reply me back on my private email
below: abdulazeezyaramariam@gmail.com

Looking forward to your urgent response.

May God Bless You
Mrs Yara Mariam Abdulazeez.

I wait to hear from you and please do keep me in your daily prayers

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