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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: dewi sandra <dewi2014@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: dewi2014@yandex.com
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 06:44:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: God give me Good minded person to handel this,




 Hello!Charity Donation. Beloved One, Compliments of the day to you, I do sincerely apologise for my intrusion of your privacy. However, I have a serious concern with which I believe you might be of help and for this reason I decided to e-mail you believing in my faith that you will handle this issue with sincere mind.because almight allah I am Mrs Sandra .B .Dewi, Indonesia citizen by birth and I'm married to Mr Abrahim Dewi Please I am contacting you to let you know my desire to establish a charity foundation in your country with some amount of dollars ( $ 9 millions united state dollars ) which I inherited from my late husband ( Mr.Abrahim ) This money was concealed in a metallic trunk box and deposited with a security and finance company in a country in west africa ouagadogou burkina fasso under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This means that the security diplomatic company does not know the content of this box that was deposited under
diplomatic coverage. It is also my desire to see that this money is invested to any charity organization of your choice in your country and distributed each year among the charity organizations, motherless baby’s home, mosques, churches, Schools, supporting destitute aged men and women or whatever you may have in mind that will be to the benefit of the less fortunate.I took this decision because I and my late husband  was raised from a motherless baby’s home and presently, I'm hospitalized here in London where I am undergoing treatment for my up coming throat cancer surgery operation. Please reply as soon as possible to confirming your acceptance to this proposition so that I will give you all the relevant information that will authorise the release and transfer of the fund to you as my duly assigned representative.Thank you in advance for your understanding and I look forward hearing from you urgently
Warm regards,
Mrs Sandra Dewi 
 

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