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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.Entisar Ahmed" <chapeloflibert@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsentisara@meta.ua
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 20:28:40 +0000
Subject: Greetings.....


Greetings.....

I am writing to you based on your good profile. I am searching for a
reliable and capable person that will assist us claim the fund my late
husband deposited with a bank before he died.

My name is Mrs. Entisar Ahmed. My late husband deals on Crude Oil with
Federal Government of Sudan and we have a personal Oil firm in Bentiu Oil
zone town and Upper Nile city. What I have experience physically, I don't
wish to experience it again in my life due to the recent civil and Ethnic
crises caused by our President Mr. Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Mr. Riek
Machar, I have been Under United Nation refugee camp in Chad to save my
life and that of my little daughter. I want to solicit for your assistance
with trust to transfer and invest the £8.5 million deposited by my late
husband to your country because my life is no longer safe in our country,
since the rebels are looking for the families of all the oil business men
in the country to kill, saying that they are the people that are milking
the country dry.

Though, I do not know how you will feel to my proposal, but the truth is
that I sneaked into Chad our neighboring country where I was living as a
refugee. I escaped with my little daughter when the rebels bust into our
house and killed my husband as one of the big oil dealers in the country,
ever since then, I have been on the run. I left my country and move to Chad
our neighboring country with the little ceasefire we had, due to the face
to face peace meeting accord coordinated by the former US Secretary of
State, and United Nations in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) between our President
Mr. Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Dr Riek Machar to stop this war.

I am presently in a camp in Cote d'Ivoire with my daughter. I moved out
from our neighboring country ''Chad'', because Chad is a poor country, they
are not able to take care of all the numerous refugees that came out from
our country. Due to the coronavirus Pandemic, I am trapped here. This is
the reason why I want us to use this time to transfer part of the fund,
then we will be making arrangements on how to come over to your country
after the lockdown. Let me know if you are willing and capable of assisting
us in getting this fund transferred to your overseas bank account so that I
can give you more information on how you can get in contact with the bank
in London where my late husband deposited this fund when he was alive.

With love from
Mrs. Entisar Ahmed.

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