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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: Akpa Sonia <akpa.sonia@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Akpa Sonia <akpasonia549@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 15:50:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject: URGENT PLS.


>From Mrs Malika George,
 
Letter From The Hospital.

Dearest,

I am Nurse Akpa Sonia,am writing on behalf of Mrs Malika George,who is an ageing widow suffering from a long time severe illness, and also a retired Associate Professor of Narcolepsy before her sickness, this is her exact condition now,And she is currently admitted in a private hospital here in Cote d’Ivoire, where I work as a nurse and she urgently ask me to contact you.

I will be very grateful for your immediate kind responds, because she has the sum of (usd$2.5 Million U.S Dollars) deposited in a fix deposit account here in Cote d’Ivoire, which she inherited from her late loving husband, Dr.Philip George,before his death.

I have verified this with the Bank before contacting you and she took this decision because she don't have any child that will inherit this money and she want God to be merciful to her and accept her soul, With God all things are possible.

Presently her doctor told her that she would not last for the next 3 months due to colon cancer problem and she don't want her late husband brothers and sisters to no about this fund, because they don't believe in God.

Am looking for an honest and God fearing person or an organization that can help her to handle the transfer process for investment and charity works in your country abroad and her late husband instructed that this fund should be use for charity purpose such as to build a schools, orphanages homes, hospitals etc.

please, if you can be sympathetic and delighted to do this social work, kindly reply me as soon as possible for more informations and always remember her in your daily prayers, 
Thank’s,

Awaiting for your quick response, God Bless You,
Mrs Malika George.

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