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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: Hana Kayat <mrs.mrandiacoulibaly@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hanaelkayat@protonmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:02:40 +0100
Subject: Re: Thank you so much and always pray for me.

Hello dear

I must apologize if you receive this message as unsolicited email but
take a minute and go through the contents and I believe you would love
to help and venture into this transaction. My name is Mrs. Hana El
Kayat; please I want you to reply me back as soon as you read this
message because I want to discuss something very important with you. I
am a cancer patient with a very short time to live and I am contacting
you because I want to entrust the sum of Four Million, Seven Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (USD4.7 million) in your hand as a
donation for charity work, to help the orphanages, widows, and
motherless children around you,

This money was deposited by my late husband who was a political
partner to late Muammar Gaddafi of Libya in and our plan was to use it
for international investment before the death of my husband during the
Libya political uprising, and considering my present bad health
condition, I have decided to entrust this fund to your hand for
charity work. I am waiting your urgent reply for more instruction and
information about this fund.

I am not unmindful that there are pathetic falsifiers who fraudulently
lure people in a spurious transaction to get money from them but I am
promising you that you will not regret in getting involve in this
transaction as everything will be done legitimately to safeguard both
parties. If you are interested in this proposal kindly send me the
below information.

Full name:
Address:
Mobile or House telephone numbers:

I am waiting your urgent reply to my private email here
hanaelkayat@protonmail.com for more information about this fund.

God bless you as you reply.

Regards
Mrs. Hana Kayat

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