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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: marisaprivatemail@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:59:02 +0300
Subject: urgent

Good morning,

Greeting in the name of the almighty God I wish you and your family happy moments of life now and forever.

My name is Marisa De Camargo, I am a citizen of Brazil and was happily married to my late husband who was a business man specialized in oil and gas and other stuffs in Brazil and Mexico. Though we were married for 26 years without a child. I know that this will sound so strange to you, as we did not know or seen each other before, but sometimes understanding and trust matters, been related or known does not grant any assurance or trust, even someone unknowing may create act of trust
even more than someone we know very well. But God knows us and he has a reason and a great purpose of directing this message to you, I am contacting you because of my present predicament and circumstances.

I have been suffering from cancer and have a short life to live according health status. I have made up my mind to donate this my inheritance the sum of USD 10.5M
Million united states dollars to the less privileged, Orphanage homes, those affected by Corona virus for their medical support and treatment.

I kept the funds in a treasure box and deposited it to UN Security office here as family items, I don't have bank account here and due to my health situation, I cannot transfer the fund because of my late husband wicked brothers and relatives who want to eat where they did not sow, i know they want me to die so they can take over all my late husband properties, that is why i made this decision to donate this money to charity purpose than to allow my late husband hard earned to be shared by wicked people who are praying for my death.

To avoid losing the funds here due to the level of crisis and my health problems every day, I have made a solid arrangement with a UN Security office, they agreed and promised to send their diplomat to deliver the treasure box to any destination of my choice.


And then for your support and efforts to fulfill this mission, 40% of this fund will be for you, this means that upon your receipt of this fund, you will take 40% of the fund for your own personal use and compensation of your efforts. The rest 60%, you will use it to support the above mentioned organizations as our agreement. Please help me to fulfill this my last wish.

I wait for your message in order to give you more details.

Thanks and regards,

Sister Marisa De Camargo.

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