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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: Mrs Noor Hidayah <mrsnoor_hidayah@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:58:57 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Greetings To You,


 Greetings To You,

Please forgive my intrusion into your privacy,my name is Mrs Noor Hidayah a Malaysia citizen but lives in capital city of Burkina-Faso, I am a sick widow have decided to donate some of my wealth to areliable individual that will use this money, $2.7 Million Dollars to help the orphans and less privileged ones in the society for the work of humanity as i don't have any child to inherit the fund when am no more alive, You will take 20% of this fund for your effort and share the rest to orphans, less privileged ones and the widows, if you are willing to accept my offer and use this fund exactly as i said kindly reply me with your data's let me know you more and instruct you on what next to do now that i can struggle to write.

My regards
Mrs Noor Hidayah

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