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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: veronica <chinakaubagu687@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ll6820355@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 01:23:55 -0700
Subject: veronica

Thank you for your response, like i said before i'm Mrs. Veronica
Agung, i'm from united of america and my late husband is from UK.I
have struggled with cancer for a long time and my doctor said that the
present stage is uncontrollable and that I have to live for a few

more months.Before the death of my husband, he worked a contract with
the British government worth fifteen million seven hunred dollars[15.7
million dollars], but he died suddenly before the money was sent into
my bank account because my husband was a philanthropist before his
death.

My late husband also encouraged me to help poor people because, since
we got married we have not been able to have any child, because of the
condition of my health.

I have already sent two million dollars to my hometown (canada) and i
will also deposit Seven hundred thousand dollars to the hospital for
my feedings and medication. I will like to send the remaining 13
million dollars to you so that you will help me and distribute it to
the churches orphanages and widows, over there in your country as
instructed by my late husband before he died since we did not have any
child to inherit this money.

Make sure you do not discriminate on religion, race, ethnicity when
handling this project. Finally my son, I want you to think carefully
and pray to God before giving me an answer because this is a noble
project for the poor and orphans and i will not like you to accept
this project if you can't handle it. May the peace of God and his
mercies be with you and your family

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