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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: Angel Dimitri <gracefundation@oneindia.in>
Reply-To: Angel Dimitri <dimitrange@gmx.fr>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 23:02:55 +0800
Subject: Greetings from Raymond and Angela


Greetings from Raymond and Angela

I'm Angela Dimitri, nineteen years old and my brother is Raymond Dimitri of age seventeen years we are the children of late Dr. James Dimitri, our Father was a wealthy heir apparent to family business. He was poisoned by unknown family member who want to take over the family business empire, according to the laboratory result, he was given a poisoned orange juice, unfortunately all the effort to save his life failed as his organs was badly damage and he died.

Before he left to hospital for treatment, he told me where to find a document of an investment deposit sum of (Seven million, two hundred thousand united state dollars) in the bank and warn that we should be careful encase anything happen to him as if he knew he was going to die. They have succeeded to kill him after several failed attempt since my father married my late mother who was a Muslim.

My father told me and my brother a lot about the family empire i being the eldest of his children my late father loved me like i was a son to him, but i am asthmatic and need a  good medical treatment and prescribed drugs to help me breath normal currently in the hospital receiving treatment for my illness. My brother Raymond is the only family i have now what can i do without him, he is the only one that have access to my email box.

Truly, we don't know you but considering our situation, we want to rely on your assistance to get the money transfer to you for investment in your country on our behalf and help us relocate to your country and establish under your care and also get back to studies we hope hear from you soon.

Respectfully
Yours Ange and Ray

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