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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: larisa kone <larisakone03@zipmail.com.br>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:42:34 -0300
Subject: MAIL

 
 
Dearset one,

I am Mrs Larisa kone  an old widow suffering from long time illness. am currently admitted in a private hospital,  I have some fund I inherited from my late loving husband. Dr. Benjamin Michael Kone, the sum of two million eight hundred thousand dollars (U.S. $ 2.800.000.00) which he deposited in one of the famous bank , and i want to donate these fund to you,

 please use the 70 percent% of the these fund to help the poor privilege,  once, widows in society and 30% percent of the total fund will be for your personal use to support your family .

Please kindly use these fund for humanitarian work as I have instructed. due to my late husband ask me to donate these fund to the less privilege before he passed away, but i ignored him and ever since then i have been having a terrible nightmares and bad dreams encounter with my late husband because of the fund which i refused to give out.

right now am in a Critical Condition and my doctor said that i have more few weeks to live because of my cancer illness.
Please, if you would be able to use these fund for humanitarian work, as I have directed kindly  reply me immediately.

below is the information needed from you to enable me introduce you to the bank where the fund is.

your full names
your Address
 your occupation
 your phone number
your age
country

hope to hear from you soonest,

remain blessed
Your sister in the Lord
Larisa Kone.

 

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