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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 CATHRYN NINA <estmos211@gmail.com>
Reply-To: cathrynnina002@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:20:01 +0200
Subject: Greetings

Greetings

I'm contacting you based on your good profiles I read and for a good
reasons, I am in search of a property to buy in your country as I
intended to come over to your country for investment, Though I have
not meet with you before but I believe that one has to risk confiding
in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My name is Mrs CATHRYN  NINA, My late husband deals on Crude Oil with
Federal Government of Sudan and he has a personal Oil firm in Bentiu
Oil zone town and Upper Nile city. What I have experience physically,
I don't wish to experience it again in my life due to the recent civil
Ethnic war cause by our President Mr. Salva Kiir and the rebel leader
Mr Riek Machar, I have been Under United Nation refugee camp in Chad
to save my life and that of my little Child.

Though, I do not know how you will feel to my proposal, but the truth
is that I sneaked into CHAD our neighboring country where I am living
now as a refugee. I escaped with my little Child when the rebels bust
into our house and killed my husband as one of the big oil dealers in
the country. Ever since then, I have being on the run.

I left my country and move to CHAD our neighboring country with the
little ceasefire we had, due to the face to face peace meeting accord
coordinated by the US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry and United
Nations in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) between our President Mr Salva Kiir
and the rebel leader Mr Riek Machar to stop this war.

I want to solicit for your partnership with trust to invest the $8
million dollars deposited by my late husband in Bank because my life
is no longer safe in our country, since the rebels are looking for the
families of all the oil business men in the country to kill, saying
that they are the ones that is milking the country dry.

I will offer you 20% of the total fund for your help, while I will
partner with you for the investment in your country.

I will wait to hear from you so as to give you more details.
With love from
Mrs CATHRYN  NINA,

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