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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: barrgregoryfreemanchambers@paysandu.com
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:40:46 -0500
Subject: My Wish



Compliment of the day to you my dear,

Do kindly allow me crave your indulgence in introducing myself to you, I go by
the name Mrs. Diana Khalid, I'm a 59 years old widow diagnosed of colorectal
cancer. I was lawfully married to Late Engineer Abdul-Hamid Ghassan
Khalid, who
naturally died after a brief illness. My husband was quite a loving and hard
working person as he was into private engineering practice before his death,
but he unfortunately passed away leaving me all he laboured for his entire
life. Our life together as Husband and wife lasted for thirty years without a
child and due to our helpless state of childlessness, my husband and I
vowed to
uplift the Less-privilege and helpless orphans as he had great passion for
persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability or
misfortune. I
can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from our fruitless
marriage,
which unfortunately never came. Most Recently, my surgeons admited to the
medical fact that I've only got limited number of days to live due to the
resurfacing of my cancerous ailment and my battle for survival has
been on ever
since I was diagnosed of this deadly desease. What really bothers me the most
is the fact that my cancer surgical doctors have successfully carried out all
possible cancer therapies including cancer chemotherapy and the last one was
called radiation but my state has remained helpless as yet, they have
therefore
suggested I be referred to hospice, i.e. cancer intensive medical care unit.
And I'm afraid I may just have to accept the obvious fact that I've only got
little or no chance of survival.

In anticipation of this tragic and quite unfortunate reality that has befallen
a widow like myslef, I have decided to make a selfless donation of the entire
funds derived from my late husband's vast estates and investments in capital
market to you and I want you to use this gift of Good-Will which comes from my
husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans,
destitute, the
down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who
prove to be genuinely handicapped financially. Our bank recently estimated the
funds to have reached an aproximated sum of twelve million great
britain pounds
(£12,000,000.00). I've therefore taken what I consider the biggest decision of
my life, to use this money in touching and affecting the lives of does in dear
need of it because that's exactly what I consider true generosity, you give
your all, and yet you feel like it cost you absolutely nothing. Give, and it
shall be given to you For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be
dealt to you in return. I have therefore been touched by the Almighty to take
this kind hearted decision of giving in the spirit of true
selflessness since I
do not have any child of my own that will inherit our wealth, except
for little
Sarah and Elizabeth whom I adopted some years ago after the death of
my husband
because I actually needed some one around to show motherly love and care, they
will both clock 5 and 7 this year and are doing pretty well in their studies
because I have made them a Trust-Fund that will be more than enough to
see them
through school and thus secure them a very bright future. I feel so fulfilled
each time they both call me "mum", how nice...

I must also have to admit to the fact that my late husband's relatives are
bourgeois and never approved of the idea of him getting married to an English
woman, and I do not want my husbands hard earned wealth to be misused or
invested into ill perceived ventures, so I want to avoid a situation
where this
money will be spent in an ungodly manner, hence my reason for taking this bold
decision. I will die a happier woman when given the full assurance
that quite a
reasonable share of my late husband's wealth will be used in turning
around the
life of the needy in our society and I would be most greatful if you
would find
it in your conscience to help set up and run a charitable home on my behalf. I
am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I can't possibly
take any
telephone calls in this regard due to my deteriorating state of
health. As soon
as I get a word of acceptance from you I shall immediately provide you with
further instructions on how to secure release of the funds from my
bank. I will
also issue you a letter of Authority that will empower you as the original
beneficiary to the funds. My greatest joy is that I lived a life worthy of
emulation. Do please assure me you will be making very good use of the
funds in
absolute accordance to my humanitarian wish and though I haven't met with you
in person but the Spirit of God has asked me to go ahead and do this, I
therefore trust and hope you pursue this noble charitable course by reaching
out to the less-privileged once in your locality. May you be granted the much
needed courage to take up this humanitarian course for the benefit of those in
dare need.

To commence this nobel humanitarian assignment, you are to contact my personal
attorney who i have placed incharge of this transaction. You are to
contact him
through the details below:

BARRISTER GREGORY FREEMAN CHAMBERS
GREGORY FREEMAN SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES
CHAMBER ADDRESS: Powlett Building 34 High Street
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA ,ESSEX ,SS1 1EF ,ENGLAND.
Telephone:+447024074379
Email: gregoryfreemanchambers@careceo.com

The reason I have enthrusted him with this assignment is due to the trust I
have in him and also my ailing health. You will agree with me that my health
condition will not allow me personally supervise this. This is why I will
advise that you kindly contact him at once so that you can commence this nobel
gesture.

Kindest Regards,
Mrs. Diana Khalid.

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