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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.Marriam Husameddine" <info@ism-cv.org>
Reply-To: marriamhusameddine666@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:31:25 +0200
Subject: Re: Urgent Attention needed.

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs. Marriam Husameddine from Kuwait but married to Late Mr.Hassan Armed Husameddine of Indonesia who was an oil merchandise for many years in so many country before he died in the year 2013, my late husband made a substantial deposit of $3,500,000 on his offshore account at Halifax Bank London, UK. with before the wicked death took him away and since then i have been battling with disease which recently doctor just told me that i have few months to live but what bothers me more is that i have no child of my own and my late husband brothers has been threatening me bad so i decided to use this fund for charity purpose.

If you are interested in this work of God, please respond, so that I can tell you all details about the bank and how the money will be transferred to your bank account for this purpose.

Urgently get back to me for more details.

Yours in sister
Mrs.Marriam Husameddine

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