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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. Edna Wallace" <ednawallace00@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Edna Wallace" <ednawallace00@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:42:52 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear My Name is Mrs Edna Wallace, I write with tears in my heart, I am contacting you from my country home, I married to Mr. Eric Wallace, who worked with Tunisia embassy in Cote D'Ivoire. For Nine years before he died in the year 2013. We were married for nine years and God blessed us with a son My husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. Since His death I decided not to remarry, When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$ 10.5m (Ten Million Five hundred Thousan


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