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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: Justin Dorris <justindorris@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:50:06 +0000
Subject: I PRAY BEFORE TAKING THIS DECISION,




My Dearest greeting to your household,
I sent this mail praying for it to reach you in a good health, since I myself am in a very critical health condition in which I go to bed every night with tears knowing I may not be alive to see the next month. I am Luana U. Barbosia ; from Ivory Coast but I'm contacting you from a hospital bed with tears, hoping to let you know about my deteriorating condition, and the Doctors incharge have concluded and courageously advised me that I may not live beyond next month. I use to be married to the late Usman Barbosia; who until his death in 20 March 2011 was a secret agent to the Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces; of Libya. We were married for thirteen years but had no child. My husband died in UK, US and France attacked against Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces since then, I made a decision to live through out the rest of my life as his widow.

Very shortly before my husband’s death, he made a deposit sum of (18.200.000.00) Eighteen Million Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars with one of the prime security company in Ivory Coast. This fund is not traceable since it came as proceed from unaccounted Libya oil and gas contracts executed under the late leader of Libya, Moammar Gadhafi. Now, with the deaths of my husband and Gadhafi ; who was deposed in the Libya civil war, I'm now the only one that knows of this particular fund in the security company here in Ivory Coast and presently I'm in this hospital bed suffering for cancer illness as the doctor has made it clear that I'm no longer responding to medications, indicating that I will not be living much longer,

Having considered my position, I have decided to contact you to represent me as next of kin to carry out my wish. I will guide you in receiving the Metallic Box contained this fund, from the security company here in Ivory Coast West Africa, which i will make known to you on my next letter after hearing from you and you will take 30% of it for yourself and your house hold while you will use the other 70% and build an orphanage home for the motherless children in your location or any Country of your choice in world. This is because I'm an orphan and does not have any relative. It has always been my desire to build an orphanage home for motherless children like myself before this sickness came between my dreams. Please you must follow this directive to achieve in claim of this metallic box containing the fund.

However, if you see yourself not capable of handling this task to fitful my dreams or you do not have courage in this message, please ignore and delete it, accept my sincere apology and Quickly respond to me on my secure email address as follows: (luanabarbosia@yahoo.com) for more directives. waiting for your urgent respond.

My Sincere Greetings.
Mrs. Luana Barbosia.


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