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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 Esther D Parrboat <mrsedparr@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mrsesther121@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:02:28 +0200
Subject: I want You In This.



Hello my dear beloved.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND URGENT AND THAT IS MY REASON OF WRITING TO
YOU,
PLEASE DEAR.

I am MRS. DEBORAH E. PARRBOAT from republic of Ireland, born in the
state
of Ohio USA. I am legally married to MR. HILARY HENDRICK PARRBOAT, a
South
Africa citizen born brought up in Switzerland, I lived in Switzerland
with
my husband for 32 years before we moved down to south Africa in 1985
after
my husband’s retirement in 1984, I am 71 years old by the grace of
God.
I am a God fearing person, and I respect humanity and nature. Actually,
it
is also the reason I contacted you because I know you are God fearing
person, as I noticed it from your profile before I decided to contact
you
for this.

I am suffering from long time (ILLNESS) CANCER OF THE BREAST. This
illness
(CANCER) has troubled me for a long time, and all indications from my
doctor is that my condition is really deteriorating and getting worse;
and
it is quite obvious that I wouldn’t live more than three months,
according to my doctor and in all indication regards to medical analysis
and dialysis. This is because the cancer disease has gotten to a very
bad
stage and speedily spread that and there is no hope for me to be a
living
again. My dear husband was involved in the January 2000 Kenya airways
plane
crashed as you can see on the news line web site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm )

40 years period of marriage life and we could not produce any child, my
late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I inherited some part
of
his business and money in the bank. The doctor has advised me that I may
not live for more than (3) THREE MONTHS AND 2 WEEKS and warn me to stop
thinking over who is going to inherit me and the wealth. Based on that,
today I have decided to donate and contribute to the LESS PRIVILEGES,
CHARITY HOMES, AND ORPHANAGE HOMES and to those DISPLACED BY WARS going
on
in the MIDDLE-EAST and AROUND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. I made this
decision after listening to the news line about 100 years old woman who
secretly donated her fortune and wealth upon her death, As you read it
here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8o-e-ilsum

I choose to contact you after viewing your profile information and I
have
the confidence in you because, I have prayed to God for me to contact
you
one day and I am happy that it has come to reality. I am DONATING this
sum
of $20.5MILLION USDOLLARS, to the less privileged of which you will be
responsible in taking care of the disbursement and sharing of this money
to
organizations that I will appoint in your country and some other places
around the world. Meanwhile, you will also get 30% of the money which
will
be; SIX MILLION AND ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,150,000.00), as
your
compensation (SHEAR) for helping me to fulfill this WILL of donation.

Please I want you to note that this fund is still in the bank where my
late
husband and I deposited it. I am going to advice my banker to change my
last WILL to YOUR NAME and file in an application for the transfer of
the
money in your name and to your account. Lastly, I honestly pray that
this
money when transferred to your account will be used for this purpose
even
if I may be dead or alive, because I have come to find out that wealth
acquisition is not always the final thing in life or death if you do not
help people around.

Please bear it in mind that every document will be changed to your name
and
the money will rightfully belong to your name as quickly as I get your
reply. I made the promise to God that the fund will be used to help the
needy and the less privilege, reply to me as soon as you get this
message
through this email:( _MRSESTHER121@GMAIL.COM __)_

May God’s grace guide and see you through as you help me in the
fulfillment of this desire. God bless you and your family. Please for
further discussion; write to me with this email address: (
_MRSESTHER121@GMAIL.COM __)_

You can call me immediately you receive this mail (+27-79-440-5094)

I await urgent reply.
Regards,

Mrs. Deborah E. Parrboat.

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