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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. Daria Donovan" <daria.donovan@yandex.ru>
Reply-To: donovandaria239@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 01:02:49 +0200
Subject: God Bless You



Good day. I wish this message may not embarrass you as I had no previous
correspondence with you. I wish you safe from this pandemic troubling the
world. I frankly do not mean any harm in passing this my message to you
today. For security reason and also due to what is happening all over the
internet now are days, the details of my personality will be directed to
you via my private email as soon as I receive your response to my request
below.

I am woman, and i am undergoing medical treatment at moment. I married to
a lovely and gentle man who worked with JAPAN embassy before he died. When
he was alive, he deposited some funds in a Financial Institution.
Presently, this money is still with them. What is actually disturbing me
now is my stroke, having known my condition I decided to donate this fund
to individual who has fear of God that will use this money the way I am
going to instruct here in.

I want you to use this funds help the widows, orphanage. And you can as
well invest part of it into viable and profit yielding ventures in your
country instead of keeping idle funds. I took this decision because I
don't have any child that will inherit the money, and I don't want my
husband's hard earned money to be misused. I don't want situation whereby
this money will be used in an ungodly manner, hence the reason for taking
this bold decision. Please, for now i don't need any telephone
communication in this regard because of my health, and because of the
presence of my husband's relatives around me always.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the
Financial Institution. I shall also send a letter of authority to them
that will empower you as the next of kin/ original beneficiary of this
fund. Note: if you do not have confidence in this message, kindly delete
it and accept my sincere apology for contacting you in this manner.

And any delay in your reply will give me room to source for individual for
this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I
stated here.

Hope to hear from you.

Thanks.
Mrs. Daria Donovan
daria.donovan@mail2diane.com


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