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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 Monika Gray <peter859487@gmail.com>
Reply-To: monikagray4@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 21:42:04 +0100
Subject: My name is Monika Gray

Dear friend

It's my pleasure to have contact with you, based on the critical
condition I find my self, though, it's not financial problem, but my
health, you might have know that cancer is not what to talk about at
home I am married to Mr. Jean-Pierre Gray who worked with Australia
embassy in Burkina Faso for nine years before he died in the year
2008.We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a
brief illness that lasted for few days.


Since his death I decided not to remarry because of the attitude of
his adopted child that do away with some property as the only son ,
When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $4.7 million
U.S dollars in a bank, Presently this money is still in bank. And My
Doctor told me that I don't have much time to live because of the
cancer problem, Having known my condition I decided to hand over this
fund to a responsible person that have fear of God to take care of the
under-privileged people with the fund , please utilize this money the
way I am going to instruct here I want you to take 40 Percent of the
total money for your personal use While 60% of the money will go to
charity people and helping the orphanage.

I hope and trust that there will be a way to support my need from you
for the reasons explained above, If you have any questions, please
contact either myself or Doctor.

Mrs Monika Gray

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