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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. Johanna Mart" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <consultmlm@frontier.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 13:48:15 -0400
Subject: Re: 08. August 2018

08. August 2018,

I pray to God that this message reaches you in wonderful spirit as I am making this contact with you based on trust and confidence irrespective of the fact that we have not met before and because of the nature of the situation I find myself. 
I am Johanna Mart, from Rothschild family one of the famous and well known in the city of Hesse-Kassel Frankfurt Germany , I was hospitalize after I had a car accident with my family, I lost my husband and my two daughters who were also on board in the accident. After the accident, I have been battling with some health problems from the major injuries that I sustained in the cause of accident.

Recently, my doctor told me that I have some few months to live due the surgery that was conducted and since then i have been battling with this deadly cancer disease (HEPATOCELLULAR OF THE LIVER) which most specialist doctors have confirmed that i may not survive no matter what. 
Though what disturbs is my presence predicament, due to the injuries that I sustained and damaged of my spinal cords in the accident. Having known my condition, I have decided to Willingly entrust the sum of $4.5 Million (Four Million, Five hundred thousand Dollars) through you for the good work of the lord, and to help the motherless, less privileged and also for the assistance of the widows.

Because I am the only surviving person and nobody else that will inherit this money. All I want you to do is to assist in safe-keep of this fund deposited at the custody of the finance company where it was deposited by my late husband., I have been given 21 working days by the finance company for the collection of the deposited item before it will be confiscated or declared un-serviceable. I seek your consent to present you as the Trustee to my late husband's inheritance, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.

If you are interested in carrying out this task, I want you to contact me immediately, so that I can arrange all the modalities to effect the release of the fund to you. I know I have never met you but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you will act sincerely. I have also decided that 30% of this money should be taken by you from the total sum upon the success release of this fund, because I am now too weak and fragile to do things myself because of my present health problems. 

Kindly furnish me your full name and your address also your contact number, so that I will prepare all relevant documents with the assistance of our family lawyer to effect the release of the fund to you. 

I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished, as I don't want anything that will Jeopardize my last wish. 

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Johanna Mart

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