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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: MARY LOUIS <laurenlinda44@gmail.com>
Reply-To: louismrsmary0@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:33:21 +0100
Subject: WORK OF GOD

Dearest,


This is a Bequest notice.

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have
never met before and you would

also be asking why I have decided to choose you, May the almighty God bless
and see you through with

this mission if you can carefully read and digest the message below.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography, I am
Mother Mary Louis, 67 Years

old woman and the wife of Late Sir Jean Louis who died alongside our only
child in a Plane crash on

Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they were flying from
New York to Geneva. Please

see the site below for more information.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband and son ,I became the Head of his investment
and just recently, the

doctors handling my health issues at Cancer center: Christie Hospital NHS
Trust UK, have said I may not

live beyond the next two months after my next surgery,but before the death
of my husband we had a plan

to use the last days of our lives to donate half of what we have worked for
to the less privilege and

charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members and close
friends, and it is so

unfortunate that my husband is not alive today to do this with me and I am
very weak with cancer and

coupled with the recent announcement from the doctor, hence I have decided
to do this philanthropic

work on behalf of my late husband and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity
homes and to some of the less

privileged in different countries. Despite the agreement between my late
husband and I to give aid to

the deprived, we also agreed to render support to an individual we have not
met before in life due to

the fact when we were still young in life we received an anonymous help
from an individual we did not

know and which we have not been able to know till date, the impact we got
from such gesture made us to

do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me
because I have just concluded

the assignment which my husband and I have agreed upon before his sudden
death and you happened to be

the beneficiary of our last WILL, irrespective of your previous financial
status, hence I need you to

do me a favor by accepting our offer.

I have presently instructed my bank manager to assist any person I will
introduce to him as the

beneficiary to the last will in the sum of Ten Million United State
Dollars (10,000,000.00) with my

bank in Nigeria the FIRST INLAND BANK NIGERIA PLC. I decided to do this now
unconditionally knowing

that my days are numbered.

To conclude with this bequest, please provide me with your Data to fully
which I will use to write a

Letter of Authorization on your behalf and send it to the bank as my new
Next of Kin.


Full Names:
Physical address;
Age:
Direct telephone number
Occupation

Note: Please I do not want you to thank me, same gesture was shown to us,
all I need you to do is, When

you get this fund, use %15 for yourself and the rest to assist the less
privileged in your community

and country,this is the only way to immortalize us when I am gone.

Reply me through my Private Email: louismrsmary0@gmail.com

Yours Faithfully
Mrs.Mary Louis
Cancer Centre: Christie Hospital NHS Trust
(Manchester, UK) North West of England

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