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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: Donna Louise <dlouisemclnnes@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 18:11:54 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I need your assistance,


Hello Dear Friend,
May the peace of almighty God be with you and your family. I know it will be a great surprise to you reading this message from me today. But I want you to consider this as God divine intervention and opportunity which I believed that You and I can cooperate together in this humanitarian project for the glory and honor of God the merciful compassionate.My names are Mrs. Donna Louise, a widow and I’m diagnosed with brain tumor disease and this illness has gotten to a very bad stage, without any family members and no child. I hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to entrust on you for the mutual benefit of the orphans and the less privileges ones. I have some funds I inherited from my late husband, the sum of ($ 8.450.000.00 Eight Million Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) deposited with the Bank. Haven’t   known my present health condition, I decided to entrust this fund under your custody believing that you will utilize it the way i am going to instruct herein, for orphanages and gives justice and help to the poor, needy, elderly ones, disables and to promote the words of God and the effort that the house of God will be maintained.My dear, all I need and required from you is your sincerity and ability to carry out the transaction and fulfill my final wish in implementing the charitable project as it requires absolute trust and devotion without any failure and I will be glad to see that the bank has finally release and transfer the fund into your bank account in your country even before I die here in the hospital, because my present health condition is very critical at the moment everything need to be process rapidly as soon as possible.Meanwhile It will be my pleasure to compensate you as my Investment Manager/Partner with 30% percent of the total money for your effort in handling the transaction while 70% of the money will be Invested into the charity project there in your country. Meanwhile I am waiting for your prompt respond, if only you are interested for further details of the transaction
May God Bless you.Truly yours beloved Sister in Christ Mrs. Donna Louise.

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