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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: nadia mustafa <nadiamustafa905@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 19:35:12 -1200
Subject: Good day,

Good day,
Greetings to you dear, My name is Nadia and I'm a widow, my late husband is
Abdoul Raheem Mustafa, before his death he was a very well known merchant
in cocoa, kola-nuts, cashew nuts,jewelry, arts works and land developer

he died from the recent war crisis in my country, he aged 46 years old when
he died ,but i still have some of my relatives , but because of the war
they have flew to an unknown location in Lebanon and Jordan , and we hardly
get connected to each other , that is because of the situation that we are
now, most of us are in refugee camp even me as I'm writing you , i only use
to get permission that I'm going to internet cafe to write my lawyer and i
also use the opportunity to write you , i really need a person who is
serious and trustworthy like you to stand by me , share ideas and that is
for so many reasons ,

Please listen to this,i have my late husband's statement of account and
death certificate here with me which i will send to you latter, because
when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank which
he used my name as the next of kin, the amount in question is $1.4M(one
Million four Hundred Thousand Dollars).
So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from
it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air
ticket to come over to meet with you. I kept this secret to people in the
camp here the only person that knows about it is the lawyer because he is
the one following up the process. So in the light of above i will like you
to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of
loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it.
it is my wish to compensate you with 25% out of the total money as soon as
the transfer has being made. This is the reason why I decided to contact
you.Please all communications should be through email only for confidential
purposes and i will like to have your full details :
1 Your full names and country name
2 your full address:
3 your job:
4 your age:
So I can present you to the lawyer as my guardian...
i would like you to contact my lawyer in the UK , may allah guide us all
for the right way amen... with love ..NADIA

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