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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: Juliana Diko Ashanti <mrsjulianadiko@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsjulianad@yahoo.com.vn
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 04:07:34 +0000
Subject: Treat this message with utmost confidential ok

Dearest,

Treat this message with utmost confidential ok.


As you may know, this is my 6th day in this Hospital bed, and I am
constrained to sit up and write this message to you purposely because
the doctor has announced that I will be undergoing the surgery as soon
as the specialist returns from Canada next tomorrow. and ever since
this information occurred to me, my mind never found rest, my heart is
still filled with fear and trembling even at this moment, i lost the
courage of living again, and so improvised and can't even afford to
speak with people right now because of fear.But I believe and pray to
survive.

Meanwhile, I want to reveal a secret to you and i hope to trust you.
My late husband left a contracted sum of $14.3m USD in the Bank of
Burkina Faso. As childless couple; we’ve long planned to use the money
to aide the poor by Building Orphanage homes. But we never succeeded
in embracing such project until my husband died as the payment was
delayed.


Now that I am not sure of my life here, and & no existing biological
child to inherit our properties, I want to entrust this project in
your hand because I don’t know if I will ever survive this sickness.
I wouldn’t want to go into many details here because I have not enough
strength for long emails. But I wished to briefly inform you that due
to lack of Biological son,after my husband died, his relatives came up
with troubles and confiscated all my husband properties and even call
me a witch.But I am innocent of all the accusations.
However, I am happy they didn’t discover about the fact that my late
husband handled some contract with the government of Burkina Faso
which the payment was delayed before he died.

So after mourning my husband as the custom permits, I took the paper
to the bank but they asked me to waiting for more weeks, which I
waited until few months ago when the management of African Bank call
to inform me that the fund is due to be claimed but I couldn’t visit
them anymore due to my health condition.

Now that you are the lucky person in my contact list, I want you to
reply this message as fast as you can and set me up in hope so I will
give you my late husband financial reference code and direct you to
the account manager in that bank whom you are to contact to assist you
release the money to you on my command. and you ought to use the value
to help the needy.
You must give me your solemn promise to handle this project in good
manner and fear of God. You must use at least 60% of this money to
build orphanage homes and help the poor while 40% goes to your purse
for your Job well-done.

So, I will want you to reply this message today so that I will give
you the bank contact information even before the operation takes place
because my heart is still panting and I fear surviving the sickness.

I believe you will not betray this trust because if you use this money
to help the poor on our name, I, and my Husband will find peace
wherever our souls maybe. And you will also find happiness in life.

Please pray that the surgery will be a successful one, and that I
could survive this sickness so we can run this project together.
May you be blessed as you help in this project
Mrs. Juliana Diko
please reply me here for my easy access: mrs.julianadiko@yahoo.com

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