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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: Mrs Cecilia Johnson <ceciliaj54@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:13:00 +0000
Subject: From Mrs.Cecillia Duru Joseph


Hello Dear My Good Friend,

Permit me to inform you of my desire to introduce to you into this humanitarians work. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days. I would like to introduce myself as Mrs.Cecillia Duru Joseph, of Republic of Benin, widow to Late Dr. Duru Joseph (formal Consular of the Benin Embassy in Madrid, Spain. I have been recently diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic. I am writing to you now from my sick bed here in the hospital.

There is $8.5M (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars) my husband has in an account with the (BOA) BANK of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no child, I decide to contact you so that I will pass the right of next of kin to you. I will send to you the document that covers the fund in the Bank which you will use to contact the bank and request for the re-transferring of the fund to your own bank account. This is on the condition that you will take only 30% of the fund for yourself, while you will use the remaining 70% to help the less privileges people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my late husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege people, If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately through my E-mail:(madamcecilliadu@outlook.com) , and through the hospital telephone number 229-98423429 Hospital Address: ST. JUDE HOSPITAL BENIN;153 bp EPP, Hlacome, Cotonou - Benin Republic, Contact person Doctor Jude Nicholas Please call the Doctor and ask him of Mrs.Cecillia Duru Joseph let the doctor to know that you want to speak with me on phone. Indicate to me your full names with your contact address so that i will have the trust to pass the right of next of kin to you. So as soon as i receive your full names with your full contact address i will proceed to send to you all the documents covering the fund, which you will send to the bank for the release of the fund to you. I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above.

I look forward to your immediate response,

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Cecillia Duru Joseph



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