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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: Janet Rolbert <suntiveta@gmail.com>
Reply-To: janetrolbert@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:39:18 -0700
Subject: Janet and Venita Rolbert

Good day , I am Janet Rolbert and my kid sister Venita we are from
Quito, Ecuador .

We are contacting you in respect of our inherited funds which are currently
in a deposited account with Western Alliance bank in the United States of
America. Our former beneficiary who was supposed to receive the funds for
us on our behalf could no longer be reached after all arrangements have
been made.



It is for this reason we are contacting you to assist and stand for us as
our new beneficiary to enable the bank release the funds and transfer them
to you. Please, we don't want to lose our inheritance, is the only hope we
have in life.



The total amount of the money is US $3,200,000.00 ( Three Million Two
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).



We are pleading with you to assist us and upon your reply, we are going to
send you the bank contact information, so that you could contact them, and
have yourself identified as our new beneficiary, who is the recipient to
the fund,to enable the bank release funds and transfer them to you.



Please, i and my kid sister we agree to give out 25% of our inheritance to
you,if you help us, because this is the only hope we have in life ..

We humble request that you don't disclose our conversation to anybody for
security reasons, we don't want any more outside person to interfere in
our life.



We will be very grateful if you could be a very trusted and reliable
beneficiary to us, please try and get back to us as soon as you receive our
email.

We are going to scan our photos and send them to you , in order for you to
know us more, and once the funds get to you , you will be able to send for
us to join you and start a new life again .



We look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks and God bless you
Janet and Venita Rolbert

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