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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: "Patricia J.Ichimura" <smass_smass_smass@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: patriciaichimura@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:19:09 +0700
Subject: Dearest,

Dearest,

I am Mrs. Patricia J.Ichimura from United State of America, married to late Hashimoto Ichimura of Japan, My Husband and my only son was involved in earthquake/tsunami disaster 2011, I am 59 years old; I am now a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast. From all indications, my condition is really deteriorating and is quite obvious that I may not live more than 2 months, because the cancer stage has gotten to a very severe stage.


My late husband was very wealthy when he was alive, my personal physician told me that I may not live for more than 4 months and I am so scared about this. So, I now decided to divide part of this wealth, by contributing to the development of charity homes like to the motherless baby homes, needy, poor, charity homes and widows through your name? Mostly to Japanese involved in the Incident of earthquake/tsunami disaster 2011/other countries.

I selected you after visiting the website for this purpose and prayed over it, I am willing to donate the sum of USD$5.5Million, to the motherless baby homes, needy, poor, charity homes and widows too. Please note that, this fund is lying with a finance institution in South East Asia all I need from you is your trust, sincerity, love, peace and your contact information’s?.


Lastly, I want you to be praying for me as regards my entire life and my health because I have come to find out since my spiritual birth lately that wealth acquisition without Jesus Christ in one's life is vanity upon vanity I also found out that a day with peace in the lord is like thousand years in paradise. If you have to die says the Lord, keep fit and I will give you the crown of life. May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you as I wait for your kind hearted reply.Please note that 20% will be for you for this assistance.

Thanks and God bless

Mrs. Patricia J.Ichimura

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