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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: sabo rabo <westafricauniondirection@gmail.com>
Reply-To: saborabo2020@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 05:23:09 -0800
Subject: Thanks for your mail

My Dear friend,

My Name is Mrs, Aina Aleksander, from Norway. I know that this
message will be a surprise to you. Firstly, I am married to Mr. Patrick
A gold merchant who owns a small gold Mine in Syria; He died
of Cardiovascular Disease in mid-March 2018. During his life time
he deposited the sum of € 8.5 Million Euro) Eight million, Five
hundred thousand Euros in a bank in Ouagadougou the capital city of
Burkina Faso in West Africa. The deposited money was from the sale of
the shares, death benefits payment and entitlements of my deceased
husband by his company.

I am sending this message to you praying that it will reach you in good
health, since I am not in good health condition in which I sleep every
night without knowing if I may be alive to see the next day. I am
suffering from long time cancer and presently i am partially suffering
from a stroke illness which has become almost impossible for me to move
around. I am married to my late husband for over 4 years before he died
and is unfortunately that we don't have a child, my doctor confided in
me that i have less chance to live. Having known my health condition, I
decided to contact you to claim the fund since I don't have any
relation I grew up from the orphanage home,

I have decided to donate what I have to you for the support of
helping Motherless babies/Less privileged/Widows' because I am dying
and diagnosed of cancer for about 2 years ago. I have been touched by
God Almighty to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband
to you for good work of God Almighty. I have asked Almighty God
to forgive me and believe he has, because He is a Merciful God I will
be going in for an operation surgery soon

This is the reason i need your services to stand as my next of kin
or an executor to claim the funds for charity purposes. If this
money remains unclaimed after my death, the bank executives or
the government will take the money as unclaimed fund and maybe use it
for selfish and worthless ventures, I need a very honest person who
can claim this money and use it for Charity works, for orphanages,
widow sand also build schools for less privilege that will be named
after my late husband and my name; I need your urgent answer to know if
you will be able to execute this project, and I will give you
more information on how the fund will be transferred to your bank
account.
Thanks,

Mrs. Aina Aleksander..

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