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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: miss philomina jesse <philominajesse031@gmail.com>
Reply-To: miss philomina jesse <philomina.jesse08@yandex.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 04:39:36 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Treat this message with utmost confidential ok.


 Dearest,

Treat this message with utmost confidential ok.
As you may know, this is my 6th day in this Hospital bed, and I am constrained to sit up and write this message to you purposely because the doctor has announced that I will be undergoing the surgery as soon as the specialist returns from Canada next tomorrow. and ever since this information occurred to me, my mind never found rest, my heart is still filled with fear and trembling even at this
moment, i lost the courage of living again, and so improvised and can’t even
afford to speak with people right now because of fear.
But I believe and pray God to spare my life.
Meanwhile, I want to inform you that my late husband left a contracted sum of $14.3m USD in the Bank of Burkina Faso. As childless couple; we’ve long planned to use the money to aid the poor by Building Orphanage homes. But we never succeeded in embracing such project until my husband died as the payment was delayed.
Now that I am not sure of my life here, and & no existing biological child to inherit
our properties, I want to entrust this project in your hand because I don’t
know if I will ever survive this sickness.
I wouldn’t want to go into many details here because I have not enough strength for long emails. But I wished to briefly inform you that due to lack of Biological son,after my husband died, his relatives came up with troubles and confiscated all
my husband properties and even call me a witch.
But God knows that am innocent of all the accusations. And now, am happy they didn’t discover about the fact that my husband handled some contract with the
government of Burkina Faso which the payment was delayed before he died.
So after mourning my husband as the custom permits, I took the paper to the bank but they asked me to waiting for more weeks, which I waited until Two months ago when the management of African Bank call to inform me that the fund is due to be claimed but I couldn’t visit them anymore due to my health condition.

Now that you are the lucky person in my contact list, I want you to reply this message as fast as you can and set me up in hope and I will give you my late husband financial reference code and direct you to the account manager in that bank who will release the money to you on my command and you ought to use it to help the needy.
You must give me your solemn promise to handle this project in good manner and fear of God. You must use at least 60% of this money to build orphanage homes and help the poor while 40% goes to your purse for your Job well-done.
So, I will want you to reply this message today so that I will give you the bank contact information even before the operation takes place because my heart is still panting and I fear surviving the sickness.

I believe you will not betray this trust because if you use this money to help the poor on our name, I, and my Husband will find peace wherever our souls maybe. And you will also find happiness in life.

Please pray that the surgery will be a successful one, and that I could survive this
sickness so we can run this project together.
May the living God bless and keep you
Mrs. Philomena Jesse

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