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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: "Mrs Sonia Wilson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <soniawilson201@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:40:30 -0700
Subject: Urgent Request

Greetings,

Please accept my greetings and i hope this messages meets you well
today.

My name is Mrs Sonia Wilson a 57 years old widow. I'm a real estate
consultant
& developer in Ireland, that is what I did for a living until I
developed a terminal illness that is making me not practically fit to
run my business that led me into winding up my business 3 years ago and
moved my capital and profit to a Wealth/Asset Management in the U.S due
to the fact that my late husband was from Lansing Michigan with the
perception of distributing the funds to the less privilege as I'm an
orphan myself or support businesses that require funding especially in
real estate though other businesses would also be welcomed.

The purpose of this email is to propose an investment plan to you using
my funds with the security company in USA. Regardless of where you are,
IN or OUTSIDE the US, I will be willing to support your business on the
basis that 30% of your turnover from my capital given to you would be
used for charity donations. This is absolutely risk free and requires no
payment to acquire. I am doing this because I have less than 3 months to
live .I therefore need a reliable fellow to champion my course by
receiving this funds, investing it in private business and donating 30%
of profit generated to the less privilege or if you are not into any
business, you can receive the funds as my next of kin and assist me in
distributing it to the less privilege but you must be honest ,do not
bother responding if you are not honest or sincere but if you are Reply
me to this email if you are interested for further details.

With my best regard
Mrs Sonia Wilson

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