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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: Madam Tatiana Orlova<williammaladie@gmail.com>
Date:
Subject:

Hello Dear.
                                    I am a citizen of Ukraine, married to a Russian Politician Oligarch,  after the war, our the bank accounts in Russia was blocked by the Russian President for political reasons.

I currently need money to leave Ukraine by the grace of God and live in any country in the world, for this reason I need a reliable person who can claim all your funds with the help of our Lawyer in Africa but presently in Israel for business trips , he will also assist you with all the documents required in the above country where we deposited all our funds.
                                    Remember no one knows about the real contents of the 120 trucks boxes of funds we deposited in one of the security house since we declared it as personal effects ( computers parts ) , for your information after Mr President killed my husband and locked me in RUSSIA PRISON because i was a former Politician in Ukraine before i got married to Russian citizen,  knowing fully that Russian President is a family friend to my late Husband and he knows almost all our belongings ( wealths ) Billions of Dollars in our Banks accounts here in Russia but not aware of the funds we deposited in Africa .
                                      For your information,  Mr President is making arrangements to kill me any time from now, the same way he killed my husband, according to a secret informations we received from one Ukrainian burn in Russia who have been given me my telephone secretly since i was locked here in Russia , and he is doing all this favours because he find out that i am a Ukrainian. I am calling you for help to assist me to claim  all the funds with the help of our lawyer and you have to be fast in this transaction because my time is very limit, try your best to make a change of ownership of all our funds to your names because I don't know if I can survive this situation, I have already given instructions to my lawyer who travelled to Israel for business trips and have already informed him about you .
       Barrister Mohammad NATANZI.
       Tel / Whatsapp :     +972-55-339-0262.
        Email :  redacted@domain.name
                                             I am only waiting for your response by sending your contacts and copy of your international passport to enable me forward everything to the lawyer or you can as well forward to the lawyer for the of change of ownership and claim of all funds and as well as transferring all funds to your Company account.
       VERY VERY IMPORTANT :   Please pray for God intervention for my freedom but if i couldn't survive this death desission by the President, please for God sake give the rest of my 50% to motherless children in an ( Orphanage ) such is life , please the little expenses for the change of ownership to your names, you can incur it and take 10% for your expenses, take 40% for yourself , invest the rest of 50% for your projects or your company.
                    I can not make any payment because of where i am presently been locked in political asylum, and they always give me my telephone secretly two times a week. Please pray for my freedom and i believe God Almighty will intervene. Ask me any questions and will give you satisfied answers.

Remain Bless.
Madam Tatiana Orlova.
EMAIL :  redacted@domain.name
TEL/Whatsapp :  +380 94 250 1472.

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