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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: "Sandra"<sandrawilliams12@myway.com>
Reply-To: sandrawilliamsusa@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Dearest One,


Dearest one,I am very sorry to interrupt your peace with this my email, if you are a child of God, I will ask my father I heaven to give you mercy and joy as you read my email in Jesus name; I will start by introducing my self. I am Sandra Williams the wife of Mr. David Williams from United Kingdom here in London-England, he got sick and on our way to the hospital dead, before the death of my husband he was an ambassador here in London, both of us was Muslim then and we have no child, since I have lost my husband I decided to move on as a Christian. Since when I have an experience of my difficult to sleep and give rest. I was sent a letter of medical check up; as my personal doctor testify that I have a lung cancer but what is bordering me most is stroke, which can easily take off my life soon and I will not want any phone conversation just because of my husband brothers, the are still Muslim and if I should empower them as my beneficiary they will just spend all this
without given help to people that is in need of help. I found it uneasy to survive myself, because a lot of our investment cannot be run and manage by me any more. I quickly call up a pastor to give me positive thinking on this solution, He ministered to me to share my properties, wealth, to motherless baby/orphanage homes/people that need money for survivor, business woman and man for their investment and for future rising, and there’s this money that was deposited by my late husband for self keeping in one of the security company/bank here ($12.m) twelve million united state dollars.Therefore I am writing this letter to people who can use part of this money to build a charity organization to contact me urgently. So that I can make available preparation on that. Especially Men/women of God (God fearing one), who are divorced by their husband or who is a minister of God, why they cannot survive from feeding their self. Please contact me. if you know that you can assist with
the above request I will like to send to me your full contact information below.Full name, resident address, age, occupation, telephone number and fax number. If you can provide me with all this information I will now give you the contact details of the security company/bank by given them an over head order to release the money to you as my new beneficiary.May the lord bless you as you ready this email in Jesus name, please to remind make sure you don’t belong to scammers or any act of fraudulent act on internet. Because if you do don’t reply my email, because the angels of the lord will not be happy with you. From your Sister.Mrs. Sandra Williams

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