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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: Faith Cicilia Nagolo <cicilianagolo@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Faith Cicilia Nagolo <ciciliaandrin@voila.fr>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:32:40 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Message From Mrs.Faith Cicilia Nagolo


Message From Mrs.Faith Cicilia Nagolo.


Greetings to you,I know this proposal will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take your time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go a long way to determine my future. My name is Mrs.Faith Cicilia Nagolo from Switzerland. I am married to Late Mr. Andrin Nagolo. He was the Director of T.C Industries Cote D'ivoire. We were married for years without a child. He died during the political crises. Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last long due to my cancer(Hepatocellular carcinoma) problem. Before my husband died, there is this sum of $5.5 Million Dollars that he deposited in account with a bank in Cote D'ivoire.

Presently this money is still in the Vault of the bank where he deposited it. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to any good God fearing person that will utilize this fund the way I am going to instruct herein and somebody that will use this fund according to the desire of my late Husband to help Less privileged people, orphanages, widows and propagating the word of God.I found your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the LORD to bring me HONEST PERSON I CAN CONFIDE ON, and I decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to handle these trust funds in good faith. I made this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this fund and I do not want in a way where this money will be used in an ungodly way.

This is why I am taking this decision to hand you over this Fund. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I want you to always remember me in your daily prayers because of my upcoming Cancer Surgery.This is not stolen money and there are no dangers involved. Please kindly respond quickly for further details if you can handle this task Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose.

Hoping to read from you .

Yours Sister,
Mrs. Faith Cicilia Nagolo

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