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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: "Mr.Amancio Ortega" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <amancioortega2018@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:37:30 -0800
Subject: CLAIM YOUR 2018 $2MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS DONATION FUNDS

You have been gifted $2 MILLION USD in 2018 Donation Funds.
Contact us at this email for your claim: (amancioortega2018@gmail.com)
I hope this information reach to you well as I know you will be
curious to know why how I selected you to receive a cash sum of
$2,000,000,00 USD,our information below is 100% legitimate,I
Mr.Amancio Ortega and my wife Rosalia fashion businessman and
founding chairman of the Inditex fashion group,of Zara clothing
showrooms around the world,I and my wife Rosalia mapping out this
donation funds once every Year to 20 countries all over the world
where our company is been located in the world especially those
states in United States and Cuba Caribbean island where the flood
has take place destroy people's propertys we donated this funds
to help them to recover all their might lost.
My wife and I decided to donate the sum of $2,000,000,00 USD to
you as part of our charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky
individuals all over the world from our $16.5 Billion Usd I and
My Wife Mapped out to help people before she died. We prayed and
searched over the internet for assistance because i saw your
profile on Microsoft e-mail owners list and picked you. Rosalia my
wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet
for the world to see. my wife has cancer and she died at
Colchester regional hospital, my wife just didn't die but she was
a great person and I miss her so much and this is why I have
decided to do one thing I promised her forever. as you could see
from the web page above, am not getting any younger and you can
imagine having no much time to live. although am a Billionaire
Investor and we have helped some charity organizations from our
Fund.
You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family
members, Before she died we decided to donate the remaining of
our Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the
local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in Truro
where  Rosalia underwent her cancer treatment, and some other
organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's
and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our payout
bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 40% of the
entire sum to our self for the remaining days because I am sick
and am writing you from hospital computer because I don't know
when I will die. To facilitate the payment process of the funds
($2,000,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you
are to send us
Your full names.................
your contact address.....................
your personal telephone number...............
your Date of birth............................
your Marital Status............................
your Occupation................................
One Passport photographs or any of your valid Identity so that I
can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am
hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and
judiciously over there in your country. Please, you have to do
you part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region,
help as many you can help once you have this money in your
personal account because that is the only objective of donating
this money to you in the first place. I like to re-assure you of
the legitimacy of this services as we will not be involved in any
fraudulent act and will never be.
Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people
this time of the year, this is the only thing that makes my wife
happy too even now that she is not here with me anymore, we have
too much to give away as I only have a few months left on earth.
I will advise you as the prospective lucky Person to be calm not
to loose this great opportunity which millions of people are
trying to entangle but the chances just couldn't come for them
because a lot of people are out there to discourage them as they
don't know how it works, and have never seen such before.Thank
you for accepting our offer,
God bless you
Mr.Amancio Ortega Billionaire investor

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