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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: AliceJahab <alicejahab150@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jahaalice216@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 10:21:30 +0000
Subject: Mrs. Alice Jahab

Dear,

My name is Mrs. Alice Jahab and I am married to Mr. Razaki Jahab for
19 years without a child and my husband died in four days from his
illness. I am contacting you to let you know my desire to give the
amount of US $ 3.5 million to charities in your country that I
inherited from my late husband. Due to my disease (cancer) that have
been confirmed for only eight months by doctors, so it is my wish that
this money is invested and distributed to charities of your choice
such as home orphanages, schools, the homeless people, nursing home,
hospitals and many other things that will be for the benefit of the
least privileged. I want you to contact me on my private email
(jahaalice216@gmail.com) so that i will start to send you the details
you need as the new beneficiary to the fund.

Once I hear from you confirming acceptance of the charity work, I will
give all pertinent information and sworn testimony authorizing the
bank to disclose and transfer the money to you as my duly appointed
representative.

Thanks,

Mrs. Alice Jahab

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