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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. Lebedeva Tatjana" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lebedevatatjana2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:36:25 -0700
Subject: Your sister

Dear Beloved One;

I Welcomed you,i also thank you for given me your audience, I am Mrs Lebedeva Tatjana,a widow to late mr Frank Lebedeva a citizen of United Kingdom.As of today,am (50) years old,and i am suffering from cancer of the breast,from every indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite unfortunate and obvious that I will not live more than three months, according to my doctor,regarding to my medical analysis, the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage after the series of breast surgery conducted by the specialist,All efforts made to put a resuscitation measure was no avail, my doctors confirmed that my tendency of lasting long is not Transparent.and at the other hand,My late husband was killed during the U.s raid against terrorism in Afghanistan,and during the period of our marriage we could not give birth to any child. My late husband was a businessman and he travels from country to country,also he is a very wealthy Business Man, after his death , I inherite
d all his assets. NOW, Following
my Doctors Advice,I now decided to share some part of this inheritance with you to contribute to the development of charity in America,Asia and Europe especially to create solution to the problem of the less privileged and orphanages.I wish you will be of help ,I am willing to donate the sum of 10,500.000.00 Million Pound sterling, [10.5m Pound sterling] to the less privileged Through you as my next of kin,if you Accept to be and able to handle it firmly.Please,i want you to note that this fund is lying in a security finance firm(America),and of which to your response,i will give instructions to the security finance firm (America) to release the fund to you as my next of kin,and upon my instruction application for the release of the fund in your name,Favor will also be done.

Be informed that you will not be stressed up much in this transfer, I see you as a Godly one who can handle this project to my request / heart desires even when i am no more, what you need to know now from me is that i don't want any lawyer to disturb my heart wish because of Documents,Etc,For this reasons,I have decided to hand the money directly to you through my Bank account manager okay, but know it that both of us(you and me)will handle this issue collectively and Also the Financial institution as well okay.

Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when released to you,it will be used for the said purpose,Even though I may be late then,because I find out that wealth acquisition without goodwill to humanity is vanity and I made the promise to myself that the fund will be used for a better tomorrow.If
you are willing, You are required to send the following

information below,

[1] Complete Home/Residential address------------
[2] Full Name------------------
[3] Private phone number--------------
[4] Age-----------------
[5] Country------------------
(6) Occupation-------------------
(7) Your international passport / driver's License Photocopy(Attached )---.

Your sister,
Mrs. Lebedeva Tatjana

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