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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: Mariam Deng <mr.hazadjaved2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dengm879@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:32:07 +0000
Subject: Dear please help me and salve my life please.

Hello my dear love.

Greetings to you and to you family dear please help me
and salve my life please.

Though my names are Sister Marian Deng. Dear I sincerely need you help
I am a Burkina Faso citizen and I was before living with my parents in
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso but latterly relocate to my late mother
village staying with one Rev Father Daniel. Due to a way of salving my
life, though my late father Mr. Nankin Reutery. was a well knowing man
as a gold and silver dealer in Burkina Faso even have a branch office
in Singapore moreover I am the only daughter they have before they
died through Moto accident but when my father was alive he deposited
in the bank the some of 5.5million dollars and gold cost over
15million dollars in the same bank and this happened when I was still
10 years old and he handed every thing over to one Barrister SAM JOHN.

Dear to brief the matter shortly to you after my parent’s burial his
brothers claims everything that belongs to my parents and then i was
even staying with their wife’s before but how they treat me I decided
to go to my mother’s family side and staying with her family, now i am
looking for a good person who can help me retrieve all my money both
the salved gold in the bank Burkina Faso moreover I will like to
further my education after we have succeeded to transfer all the money
to you account

About my Education, I was schooling before the Death of my beloved
parents, and I will like to continue as soon as I relocate to your
country, because this is a promise I promise to my father, So dear, I
really need your words of information. And help till the fund and gold
has been transferred out for me. Remember, I can not lay hands on the
fund now; I need your assistance to process it out. In the next step,
my lawyer will compose a little agreement for us to sign, which will
bind us together since money is involved. I can tell my lawyer to
compose an agreement.

Though I will give you more details about this issue as soon as I hear
from you concerning how we are going to handle every issue after you
respond, please here is my Email id dengm879@gmail.com

Dear here you can view my parents’ website
https://www.goldsilvercentral.com.sg/ and bellow here is the address
gold shop in Singapore. GoldSilver Central Pte. Ltd.
3 Pickering Street #01-15/16 Nankin Row Singapore 048660

You’re beloved Mariam.

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