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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 F.Ostadazimi" <"Ostadazimiwwwww."@mist.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "fatima.on89@web.com.cd" <fatima.on89@web.com.cd>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 07:39:18 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re.Re.Re Hello My Dear...

Hello My Dear,

Good day and please I am sorry for my unsolicited mail to you but please forgive me for I am desperate to save my life and feature.

I am Miss Fatima Ostadazimi from Syria but I am now in Moria Refugee camp, Greece. I am 21 years old, I lost my parents in the Recent war in Syria, right now am in Greece, please save my life I am in danger and I want you to help me receive my late father funds, my inheritance fund which my late beloved father deposited in a Dubai Financial Home, I have every details of his lawyer in Dubai that has all documents of the money and all I need is a reasonable foreign partner who will help me to stand as the foreign Partner to my late father and beneficiary to the fund and who will be like my late father to me. Due to my fathers religion and tradition, I am not permitted as a woman to own up the inheritance and that is my only hope. My uncles have tried severally to contact the lawyer for claims of this deposit but she has managed to keep them off till now and she was the one that actually advised me to look for a friend of my parents who are foreigners that can stand in as my guardian for the release of the fund. I am suffering here and in a bad health condition. Even if I will die today, I do not want my wicked uncles to take over my fathers money.

The money in Dubai is running into several millions of dollars, I just need This fund to be transferred to your account so that i will come over to your country and complete my education. You will also assist me to invest the fund as you can see that my country have been in deep crisis due to the war, I cannot go back there again because I have nobody again all of my family were killed in the war and only remaining survivors are only interested in taking my inheritance from me. Please help me to receive my money Please kindly get back to me on my personal email address below. I have a lot to share with you.

Thanks for your much understanding and waiting for your urgent response because of my condition here.

My Personal email- fatima.on89@web.com.cd

My regards to you,
Miss Fatima Ostadazimi

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