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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.Judith Peters" <rogget410@gmail.com>
Reply-To: attorneycchaplainu@aliyun.com
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:56:36 +0100
Subject: Mrs. Judith Peters.

I'm Mrs. Judith Peters, a Successful business Woman dealing with
Exportation, I got your mail contact through search to let you know my
Ugly Situation.

Am a dying Woman here in Los Angeles California Hospital Bed in
(USA),I Lost my Husband and my only Daughter to Cancer. I'm dying with
the same symptoms and more.

My Doctor open-up to me today that he is Afraid to tell me my
Condition and inside me, I already know that I'm not going to survive
and I can't live alone without my Family on Earth.

I have a project that I am about to hand over to you. and I already
instructed the Heritage STBank to transfer my fund sum of
$150,000.000.00usd to you're so as to enable you to give 50% to
Charitable Home and take 50% for yourself.

I ask my Attorney to help me keep you notice failure for me to reach
you in person.

The Doctor said I have a few weeks to live, please contact my attorney
with the following email address and phone number as soon as possible,
I am finding it difficult to breathe now and I am not sure if I can
stay up to one week.

Name Attorney Chaplain Upright
Email: attorneycchaplainu@aliyun.com

Please hurry up to contact my attorney so that he can direct you on
how you will hand over 50% of the $150,000,000.00 to Charity. The
remaining 50% will be for you, I really want to achieve my goal by
helping the Charity organization before I die.

My Regards.

Mrs. Judith Peters.
CEO.

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