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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: "MRS ANA JOHNSON" <mrsanajohnson@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:55:53 -0500
Subject:

NO 67 ,AMIR HABIBULLAH STREET,
JALALABAD,
NANGARHAR,
AFGHANISTAN

Respectable lover of humanity,
Greetings in the name of God
I am former MRS..DURKHANI DOORDANA MAHBOOB, now MRS .ANA JOHNSON, a
widow
to the Late SHEIK NAWEED MAHBOOB,[a man who was ANTI -TALIBAN
REGIME]. I am 68 years old, a new Christian convert,
suffering from long time cancer of the breast. From all indications my
condition is really deteriorating and it\'s quite obvious that I
won\'t
live more than four months according to my doctors. This is because
the
cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.
My late husband was among the three civilians killed in the Northern
part of Afghanistan BY THE WICKED REGIME OF MULLAH MUHAMMAD OMAR, THE
LEADER OF THE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN,when he travelled to
that
area to monitor an Hospital / a Humanitarian Foundation, (HHF) he was
setting bup for the benefit of the Afghan masses who were terrorized
by the
TALIBAN REGIME OF MULLAH MUHAMMAD OMAR as at then before the American
liberated us from HIS wicked and oppresive regime. During the period
of our
marriage we could produce only a male child ,OBAID . My late husband
was very
wealthy and after his death,we inherited all
his businesses and wealth.
Ever since the death of my husband , his family members have sworn
thatI and my son will not inherit his properties and as it is common
with the Islamic
region,I have no right of my own . Since he died intestate, according
to the religion
of Islam, his siblings must inherit his properties.
This I have sworn I will not take.My late husband was a very rich man
who kept most of all his monies at home because of his problems with
then
TALIBAN REGIME .As it is characteristics of a man who lived under
fear having
sworn he will not take instructions from the Taliban regime at that
time,
he kept his money in a sealed trunk box ever ready to take the sealed
trunk box to Europe for safe- keeping. He confided in me as the only
surviving wife that in that box contains USD$12.5 million .He was
killed in
july 2000 during one the raids carried out in the Northern
Afghanistan by the
TALIBAN REGIME OF OMAR ,without realizing his ambition of taking the
SEALED
TRUNK BOX OF MONEY AND US ALL out of our country.
Uknown to his family members we have kept this secret to ourselves
alone all these while. They had only thought that all the money he
had was
in the bank and as such had written so many letters through their
lawyers to stop
us from claiming his money in the bank.Just few weeks ago , we,
successfully,through one of his closest business associares ,through
a DIPLOMATIC
COURIER COMPANY shipped the sealed trunk box to a SECURITY /DEPOSIT
COMPANY in Europe for safe keeping. We are now left with the option
of going to
Europe to collect the money.I cannot travel now because of my age
hence I
shallsend my son to take care of it.
Oman cannot travel because the courts in our country seized his
travel documents
when the father\'s brothers accused him of conspiracy in the murder of
my late husband even though he died in a raid carried out by the
TALIBAN.We have decided to have you claim this fund on our
behalf.After you have
succeeded in doing this, you shall send some money to my son to do new
travelling documents under a new identity to enable him come over to
Europe
unnoticed.You shall make no attempt to call us on the phone as all
our phone
lines are bugged by his father\'s brothers who have sworn to use their
wealth to deal with us.
So we have now decided to divide part of this wealth, to contribute
to the development of the church in Africa, America, Asia and Europe.
We selected you after visiting the internet and we prayed over it. We
are willing to donate 20% of this money to the less priviledged, we
have
also agreed to give you 20% of this money for your assistance in
helping
to claim this money, while the rest 60% will be for us. Please I want
you to
note that, this fund is lying in a security
company and upon my instruction, you will file in an application for
the transfer of the money in your name.
Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred will be used
for the said purpose, because I have come to find out that wealth
acquisition without Christ is vanity upon vanity.
I Await your Urgent Reply.
MRS Ana Johnson
PLEASE TRY REPLY ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL,
mrsanajohnson@pochta.ru,mrsanajohnson@yahoo.com,mrsanajohnson1@uymail.com,
with your full contact informations, phone and fax with your ressidential
address,

thanks i wait for your urgent response,

mrs ana johnson

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