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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: Mary Wiliams <quarinep@gmail.com>
Reply-To: marywiliams1414@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:50:21 +0100
Subject: YOU'VE BEEN FAVORED AND CHOSEN

Greetings Dearest

This is a Bequest notice.

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have
never met before and you would also be asking why I have decided to choose
you amongst the numerous internet users in

the world, precisely I cannot say why I have chosen you but do not be
worried for I saw your profile on the Internet, which has made me
accomplish my request. May the almighty God bless and see

you through with this mission if you can carefully read and digest the
message below.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I am
Mother Mrs Mary Wilams, 75 Years old woman and the wife of Late Dr WILLIAMS
who died alongside our only child in a

Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they
were flying from New York to Geneva. Please see the site below for more
information.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband and son ,I became the Head of his investment
and just recently, the doctors handling my health issues at Cancer center:
Christie Hospital NHS Trust UK, have said I

may not live beyond the next two months after my next surgery,but before
the death of my husband we had a plan to use the last days of our lives to
donate half of what we have worked for to the

less privilege and charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family
members and close friends, and it is so unfortunate that my husband is not
alive today to do this with me and I am very weak

with cancer and coupled with the recent announcement from the doctor, hence
I have decided to do this philanthropic work on behalf of my late husband
and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity
homes and to some of the less privileged in different countries. Despite
the agreement between my late husband and I to give

aid to the deprived, we also agreed to render support to an individual we
have not met before in life due to the fact when we were still young in
life we received an anonymous help from an

individual we did not know and which we have not been able to know till
date, the impact we got from such gesture made us to do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me
because I have just concluded the assignment which my husband and I have
agreed upon before his sudden death and you

happened to be the beneficiary of our last WILL, irrespective of your
previous financial status, hence I need you to do me a favor by accepting
our offer.

I have presently instructed my bank manager to assist any person I will
introduce to him as the beneficiary to the last will in the sum of Ten
Million British Pounds(10,000,000.00) I decided to do

this now unconditionally knowing that my days are numbered.



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Note: Please I do not want you to thank me, same gesture was shown to us,
all I need you to do is, When you get this fund, use for yourself and the
rest to assist the less privileged in your

community and country,this is the only way to immortalize us when I am gone.

Reply me through my Private Email: marywiliams1414@gmail.com

Yours Faithfully
Mrs Mary Wiliams
Cancer Centre: Christie Hospital NHS Trust
(Manchester, UK) North West of England

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