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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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Fraud email example:

From: farida farida <lamiduhas301@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ffrida022@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:14:34 +0100
Subject: urgent please



Dear Elected,

CAN I TRUST YOU??????
I bring peace and love to you from God and our lord Jesus Christ. It is by
the grace of God that I received Christ after i got converted from Islamic
religion to Christianity, Having known the truth; I had no choice than to
do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for eternal life and in the
sight of man for witness of God mercy and glory upon my life.

I am Mrs. Farida Mohammed,my friends called my farida farida back in school
days,i am the wife of Late Mr. Ali Mohammed from Malaysia, My husband
worked with the Central Bank Of Malaysia for ten years before he died .We
were married for twenty-seven years without a child. My Husband died after
a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were
both Muslims ,but now i got converted to Christianity and now born again
Christians,as it was just the christian church members that comes to pray
for me since i have been in hospital . Since my husbands death ,I decided
not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible
is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of
$16.4M(USD) (Sixteen Million four Hundred Thousand USA dollars) with a
commercial Bank in Africa.

Presently, this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote
me as the next of kin to come forward to sign for the release of this fund
only know to me and my late husband or rather issue an authorization to
somebody to receive it on my behalf if I cannot come over due to the
governments order to evacuate all dormant accounts with commercial banks.

Unfortunately, I'm in a hospital in where I have been undergoing treatment
for esophageal cancer. I have lost my ability to talk well and my doctors
have told me that I have only few months to live. It is my last wish to see
this money distributed to any charitable organizations anywhere in the
World. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth
since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge
responsibility to any of them.

Please will you utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein
?. I want you to take 35% of the total money for your personal use. And 5%
shall stand to settle any other expenses that may be incurred in the course
of executing the transaction, while the remaining 60% of the money will go
to charity people in the street without home, helping the orphanage and
less-privileged once.

Please i don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of
my soundless voice and presence of my husband's relatives around me always.
So please kindly send me only E-mail ,because I don't want my husband's
relatives to know about this money,as they have already sold all my late
husbands properties and stolen all our loose cash,With God all things are
possible.

As soon as I receive your response I shall give you the contact of my late
husband Attorney who is in Africa ,he is a Muslim,but a nice person,as he
will be the one to assist you in laying claims for this money. Your prompt
reply will be appreciated. Thank you.

Yours in Christ,
Farida.








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