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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 Amelia Pierson <news@email1-corel.com>
Reply-To: amelia.pierson@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Dec 2022 21:03:39 +0100
Subject: Please get back to me

Hi wittymacs,

Greetings, Please let this not sound strange to you because my lawyer who would have done this died early last year.

I got your email ID from your country's guestbook online.

I'm Mrs. Amelia Pierson, British Citizen from Ireland, I am legally married to Mr. John Wiley Pierson, a British citizen. We lived in Switzerland with my husband for 32 years before we moved down to the U.K in 1985
after my husband's retirement in 1984.

I am 82 years old by the grace of God, and I am suffering from long-term (illness) cancer of the blood (leukemia) and throat cancer. This illness has troubled me for a long time.

All indications from my doctor and medical analysis are that my condition is deteriorating and getting worse, and it is quite obvious that I may not live more than six months, although it is God who decides.

This is because cancer has gotten to a very bad stage, so there is no hope for me to live again. My dear husband was involved in the January 2000 Kenya airways plane crash as you can
see on the news line website. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm ) 40 years period of my marriage life, still we could not produce any child, my late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I
inherited some part of his business and money in the bank.

Today I have decided to donate and contribute to you, your Country, and to the less privileged, charity homes, orphanage homes, and those displaced by wars going on in the middle east and around the
world.

After the death of my husband I decided not to remarry, I sold all my belongings and deposited the sum of USD 18.6 million with UBS Bank in the United States.

Presently, I am in India and this money is still with UBS Bank, the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the funds for keeping it for so long or rather issue a letter of authorization
to somebody to receive it on my behalf, before they get it confiscated.

Am always with my laptop in the hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer in India. I have since lost my ability to talk.

I hope you are a God-fearing person. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested in funding charity organizations and the poor or motherless babies' homes, orphanages, and widows.

As soon as I receive your response I will issue you a letter of authorization to contact the UBS Bank.

Hoping to hear from you

Mrs. Amelia Pierson

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