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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. Elisa Carmagnola<mrs.elisac@mail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.elisac@gmail.com
Date: 23 Apr 2018 22:32:54 -0400
Subject: God bless you as you reply

Beloved in Christ.
 
 
Greetings my dear, I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears in my eyes and great sorrow in my heart. I am (Mrs.) Elisa Carmagnola from Uzbekistan and a widow to late Martin Carmagnola, I am 63 years old, suffering from long time Cancer of the breast. From all indications my condition is really deteriorating and it's quite obvious that I won't live more than 2 months according to my doctors.
 
 
I have some funds I inherited from my late loving husband Mr. Martin Carmagnola, the sum of ($1,850.000,00) which he deposited in a Bank. I need a very honest and God fearing person that can use these funds for Charity work, helping the Less Privileges, and 20% of this money will be for your time and expenses, while 80% goes to charities.
 
I have decided to donate the sum to the less privileged because I cannot take this money to the grave. All I need is an honest person who will use at least %80 of the funds as I instructed, then the rest %20 will go to you for helping me accomplish this mission because donating this money to charity is the only legacy I can leave behind after my death. No money is required from you to carry on with this project because it is my heart desire to make a generous gift to you to work for a charity in your country, I don't mind if you are a Christian or Muslim. Please can trust you?  because there are greedy and fraudulent people over the world. I will give you more details as soon as I hear from you.
 
 
I love the bilble verse thats says: psalms 41:1: Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

As soon as I receive your reply, I will forward to you all the information's you will use to get this fund released from the Bank and to be transferred to you. I honestly pray that this money when transferred to you, will be sure for the said purpose, because I have come to find out that holding wealth tight without helping others in need is vanity.
Please let me know if I can TRUST YOU ON THIS to carry out this favour for me. I look forward to your prompt reply for more details.
 
Yours sincerely
(Mrs.) Elisa Carmagnola


 

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