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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.Joy Brown" <notificationote@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.joybrown25@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:22:13 -0800
Subject: Waiting for your information



--
Dear Friend

Greetings in the name of God Please let this not sound strange to you
for
my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year.
I
prayed and got your email id from your country guest-book. I am Mrs.
Joy H.
Brown I am 68 years old, I am suffering from a long time cancer of the
lungs which also affected my brain, from all indication my conditions
is
really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my
doctors
they have advised me that I may not live for the next two months, this
is
because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.

I was brought up from a motherless babies home was married to my late
husband senator (Nelson Uche Brown) for twenty years without a child,
my
husband died in a fatal motor accident Before his death we were true
believers. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my
inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of .8 million dollars in
my
personal bank account with the Bank.

Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote
me
as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it
so
long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive
it on
my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get
it
confiscated.

Presently, I am in a hospital here in Switzerland where I have been
undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. My doctors have told me
that
I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see that this
money
is invested to any organization of my choice and distributed each year
among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless baby’s
home.

I want you as God fearing person, to also use this money to fund
church,
mosque, orphanages and widows, I took this decision, before I rest in
peace
because my time will so on be up.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the
Bank.
I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the
new
beneficiary of my fund.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.
Hoping
to hear from you soon. NAME: __________SURNAME:__________________SEX:
_____
AGE: ______MARITAL: _______________COUNTRY: ______
CONTACT ADDRESS: ________________________PHONE NO#___________FAX
NO#_________________OCCUPATION:
______________

Waiting for your information

Mrs. Joy Brown

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