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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. Ursula Zachary " <ursuladam@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:27:32 +0300
Subject: URGENT

My Dear Beneficiary,

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have
never met before and you would also be asking why I have decided to
chose you among the numerous internet users in the world. Precisely, I
cannot say why I have chosen you but do not be worried for I saw your
profile on the Internet, which has made me accomplish my request. May
the almighty God bless and see you through with this mission if you can
carefully read and digest the message below.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I
am Mother Ursula Zachary, 72 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir
Danon Zachary who died after a long illness on Monday the 7th of
September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK.

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment and
now that I am old and weak I have decided to spend the rest of my life
with my family and loved ones whom I never had time for during the
course of my business life, but before the death of my husband we had a
plan to use the last days of our lives to donate half of what we have
worked for to the less privilege and charity homes and the other half
for ourselves, family members and close friends, and it is so
unfortunate that my husband is not alive today to do this with me and I
am very weak and old now, hence I have decided to do this philanthropic
work on behalf of my late husband and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several
charity homes and to some of the less privileged in different countries.
Despite the agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the
deprived, we also agreed to render support to an individual we have not
meet before in life due to the fact when we were still young in life we
receive an anonymous help from an individual we did not know and which
we have not being able to know till date, the impact we got from such
gesture made us to do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me
because I have just concluded the assignment which my husband and I have
agreed upon before his sudden death and you happened to be the
beneficiary of our last WILL, irrespective of your previous financial
status, hence I need you to do me a favor by accepting our offer that
will cost you nothing.

I have presently deposited a Cheque in the sum of $5,800,000.00 United
States Dollars with ING Bank N.V to transfer to you, what you have to do
now is to contact ING Bank N.V as soon as possible to know when they
will transfer your money to you because of the expiring date.

I only made the deposit with your EMAIL ADDRESS and DEPOSIT CODE
(20357478492) because I do not know your bank account number you would
want to receive the money with. I couldn't find them on net while
browsing your profile if not I would have given it to the BANK for
immediate transfer.

For your information, I have paid for the Insurance Premium and Wire
transfer Fee of the cash showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to
sponsor Terrorism in your Country.

Let me repeat again, you are not to pay for the Insurance Premium and
the Wire transfer Fee of the Cheque because I have already paid for
them, the only money you are expected to pay is $85 United States
Dollars for the Account Activation to enable the bank transfer the sum
to your local account without you paying any further charges for
transfer. I would have paid the fee but the bank insisted that I should
not because they don't know when you will be contacting them and to
avoid demurrage or further cost. Please my dear if you know that you
will not help me with the $85 United States Dollars please do not
contact me or the ING Bank, please i need some one that will help me.

You have to contact the Bank now for the transfer of the cheque with
this information below;

Bank Name: ING Bank N.V
Contact Person: Dr. Kevin
Tel: +447452059980
Email: kevin@ingbankuk.com

You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake
in transfer.
Postal address;
Full Names:
Direct telephone number;

Below is the DEPOSIT CODE (20357478492) of the draft, you are to also
present it to them for verification before transfer.

Note: Please I do not want you to thank me or my husband all I need you
to do is to invest wisely with it and do the same good to someone’s life
someday as this is the only way this world would be a better community
if we render selfless services to one another.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Ursula Zachary

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