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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: Madam Alice J Daniel <madamalicej@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsalicedan@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 21:49:44 +0100
Subject: Humanitarians Help

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. Alice J, Williams, of Republic of
Benin, widow to Late Dr. Johnson D William, (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: (*mrsalice13@outlook.com
<mrsalice13@outlook.com>* ) , and through the hospital telephone number
229-98423429 <%2B229-98423429> 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. Alice J,
Williams, 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. Alice J, William

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