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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: Agness Robert <mrsrobertagness@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Agness Robert <robertagness@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:02:23 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Charitable Donation



From  Mrs. Agness Robert.

My Greetings

I
am Mrs. Agness Robert. A widow, I am the wife of late Mr. James Robert.
I am 68 years old, I am suffering from long-term breast, all indication
my conditions cancer is really deteriorating and is pretty obvious that
I would not live more than three months, my doctors riding
accommodation, and in all aspects of medical tests indication, this is
because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad scenario that there is
hope for me to be a living person again,

My late husband was
killed during the raid against terrorism in France, and during the
period of our marriage we could not produce any child, my husband was
very wealthy and after his death, inherited all his business and wealth.
Doctors have advised me that I can not live

Four months, so now
decided to divide part of this wealth, to contribute to the development
of the church in Canada, America, Africa, Europe and Asia, I want to
donate this funds for charity project and orphanage homes.

I
selected after visiting the website I prayed about it; I am willing to
donate the sum of $3.3 million USA, to the help the orphanages in your
country.

Finally, I sincerely pray that this money when
transferred will be used for this purpose although I am late then.
Please provide me with your full name and your home address and your
direct telephone numbers and tell me the area you will prefer to invest
the funds.

God bless you.
Mrs. Agness Robert.

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