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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: Lillian Noor <liliannoor101@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 13:47:25 -0700
Subject: My dear greetings to you,

My dear greetings to you,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not
known before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation.
You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the
fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came
by your contact information because there are many such possibilities
these days. My name is Mrs. Lillian Noor from Atlanta Georgia USA; I
have been recently diagnosed of Cancer of the pelvis. I am writing you
from my sick bed.

There is this USD$20.8M (Twenty Million Eight Hundred Thousand
American Dollars) my husband has in an account with the Euroclear bank
in Brussels Belgium. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement
as a family treasure of which I am the next of kin. With my health
condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking
for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin.
This person will apply to the Euroclear bank and request for the
transfer of the fund to his/her bank account. This is on the condition
that you will take 25% of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses,
while you will use the remaining 70% as charity for the less privilege
people in the society. This is in fulfillment of the last request of
my late husband that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter
for the less privileged.

I cannot do this myself any more. I once asked members of my family to
close one of my late husband’s bank accounts and donate the money
which I have there to the less privilege people in the society; they
refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them
anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for
them. If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me
immediately with your full names and contact information so that I
will ask our family lawyer to prepare the authorization that will give
you the right of next of kin to the account in the bank.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be
transferred into your account, but you should please ensure that the
fund is used as I have described above.

N.B: Please reply me on this my private email address liliannoor2021@gmail.com


Remain Blessed

Yours Sister,

Mrs. Lillian Noor.

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