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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: "Mrs.Alice Robinson" <alicerobinson767@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:18:49 -1200
Subject: Gooday my beloved,

Gooday my dearest one.

May the grace, peace, love and the truth in the word of God be with
you and all those that you love and care for. I know it will be a
great surprise to you reading this message from me today. I haven't
known each other or met before. But I want you to consider this as
God's divine intervention and opportunity. I believe that You and I
can cooperate together in this humanitarian social project only for
the glory and honor of God. My name are, Mrs.robinson,alice, I am a
Citizen of United states of America (U.S.A) I am married to, late
Mr,felix.george.robinson Who was a small gold company owner. My late
husband died on an airline crash, in the year February 2010, During
his lifetime he deposited the sum of (Eleven point five million
Dollars).In the bank The money was from the sale of his company and
death benefits payment and entitlements of my late husband by his
company.I am a dying widow hospitalized undergoing treatment for brain
tumor disease. Because of this reason i decided to seek for your
sincerity and ability to carry out this transaction and fulfill my
final wish in implementing the charitable social project in your
country as it requires absolute trust and devotion without any
failure, which i believe that you are a reliable person and you will
not expose or betray this trust and confident that I'm about to
entrust on you. My late husband made a substantial deposit with the
bank with my name as the beneficiary which I decided to hand over and
entrust the sum of ($11,000,000.00 Dollars) in the account to you to
invest into the humanitarian social project. Based on my present
health status as I'm permanently indisposed to handle finances or any
financial related project, following my diagnoses. Having known my
present health condition, I decided to seek for your assistance in
reclaiming the fund for the support and mutual benefit of the less
privileged as I don't have any relation, and I have been touched by
God to donate from what I have to the needy because it will be a great
loss in spending the fund on my health treatment hence my doctor has
confirmed to me that i will not survive this illness.

With this intention, I was determined to contact you in order to
sustain and assist me as my rightful appointed beneficiary and reclaim
the fund from the Bank and invest it into this humanitarian project
for the mutual benefits of the less privileged ones. Because If the
fund remains unclaimed with the bank I pass away, those greedy bank
executives will place the fund as an unclaimed Fund and share it among
themselves for their selfish and worthless ventures. In this regard, I
will be grateful for your kind acceptance to carry out this
transaction and fulfill my final wish in implementing the charitable
project in your country as it requires absolute trust and devotion
without any failure. Meanwhile It will be my pleasure to compensate
you as my Investment Manager/Partner with 40% percent of the total
amount as commission/share just for you to take this charitable
project serious and handle it with sincerity of mind, showing honesty
and attention in our communication and in every aspect of this
project, While 60% of the money will be invested into the charity
project. Or better still for more seriousness and attention you can
invest the total fund into your company or any lucrative Business
venture of your choice and donate and support the less privileged ones
from the revenue you make from the Business venture. I urge you to
assist me fulfill my last wish.

May God Bless You for your kind consideration.
Respectfully. Mrs.robinson,alice,
Written from the hospital,

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