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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: MARGARET JOHN <sandrachikadi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rosefrancis3437@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:33:30 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION

Dear good day friend,

I greet you with the name in the name of the LORD Almighty the giver
of every good thing.,Good day and compliments of the seasons, I know
it is true that this letter may come to you as a surprise.
Nevertheless, I humbly ask you to give me your attention and hear me
well., but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefull
has the decision you make will go off a long way to determine my
future eand continued existence. I am Mrs. Margaret John widow of 68
years old suffering from long time illness. I have some funds I
inherited from my late husband, the sum of (Six million five hundred
thousand dollars)US$6,500,000.00 and I needed a very honest and God
fearing who can withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity
works. I WISH TO GIVE THIS FUNDS TO YOU FOR CHARITY WORKS. I found
your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the LORD
to bring me a helper and i decided to contact you if you may be
willing and interested to handle these trust funds in good faith
before anything happens to me.

Having known my condition I decided to donate this money to Churches,
organizations or good person that will utilize this money the way I am
going to instruct herein. I want you to use this money for Churches,
Charity organizations, orphanages, widows and other people that are in
need. l took this decision because I don’t have any child that will
inherit this money . Moreover, my husband relatives are not close to
me since I develop a Cancer problem and it had been their wish to see
me dead in order to inherit his wealth since we have no Child. These
people are not worthy of this inheritance. This is why I am taking
this decision.

I want your urgent reply to me so that I will give you the deposit
receipt which the BANK issued to me as next of kin for immediate
transfer of the money to your account in your country, to start the
good work of God, I am desperately in keen need of assistance and I
have summoned up courage to contact you for this task, you must not
fail me and the millions of the poor people in our todays WORLD. This
is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved,100% RISK FREE
with full legal proof. Please if you would be able to use the funds
for the Charity works kindly let me know immediately. I will
appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in this matter to
accomplish my heart desire, as I don’t want anything that will
jeopardize my last wish. I want you to take 30 percent of the total
money for your personal use while 70% of the money will go to
charity.I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in
this matter to accomplish my heart desire, as I don’t want anything
that will jeopardize my last wish. Any delay in your reply may give me
room to look for another good person for this same purpose. Please
assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.
Thanks and Remain blessed
Yours Sister in The Lord,
Mrs. Margaret John.

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