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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Vivian Salem" <alhajamryabcha@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ms.vivslem@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 01:48:45 -0800
Subject: Re: Dearest beloved one

Dearest beloved one

I have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have
approached you of this issue being that the internet has been greatly
abused over the recent years. I have decided to take this means seeing
no other means could have been faster to reach you than the e-mail .
My name is Mrs.Vivian Salem, wife of late Engineer Salem Nasim, an
Iraq,Two year ago, I lost my husband Nasim and my three children
-Husam, 15 years old ,Wasim, 12 years old and Merna, 6years old, this
append when American tank shelled our car as the family attempted to
flee heavy fighting in Baghdad.

View the Website below for detailed story of how i lost my family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/04/vivians_story/html/1.stm

Before my husband and children were killed, he deposited the sum of
US$3. 200,000.00 (Three million, two hundred thousand united states
dollars only ) with a bank in United States Of America , This is the
only money remaining in the account right now. My Doctor told me that
I would not last for the next two months due to A Blood cancer
{LUKEMIA}. Having known my condition, I have decided to donate the
money for charity through you since I do not have a child to inherit
it and its better I do not die leaving the money here without it
reaching to the poor and the less privileged ones in the society. and
my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband´s
hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don´t want a
situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner.

As soon as I receive your response, I will give you the contact
information of the bank in United States Of America where my late
husband fund is been deposited, I was touched in spirit while praying
last night and Almighty God Directed me to donate this money to you
as a Priests to use it for the good work of Humanity. Please promise
me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. this most be kept
confidential from eyes and ears of my husband's family. Hoping to hear
from you.

Pray for me as well and may God bless you as you accept to be of help.
Please reply if you have accepted to be of help to me.


Regards,
Mrs.Vivian Salem

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