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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: mrsalthhenkel <altnshan770@gmail.com>
Reply-To: althoshan770@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 06:11:08 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

Dear Friend,

I came across your e-mail contact prior to a private search while in
need of an honest and sincere person who can assist and partner with
me to secure my late husband’s money, the amount of(10,900,000
Euros)deposited in a bank for safe keeping purposes. But right now my
husband is dead and the financial firm has been giving me several
notifications to make the claim of the said deposit, I want a
situation whereby I will present you as my Executor to the bank so
that you assist me to make the claim of this money from the financial
firm.

So that it will be transferred to your custody pending my arrival with
my only daughter to your country so that we can use it judiciously for
investment purposes, my only daughter will continue her education in
your country upon our arrival once every arrangement as regards this
transaction is concluded. I will be offering you 25% of the money for
your foreign assistance as long as you can help me in carrying out
this project effectively without insinuating greed and selfishness. I
am contacting you in this respect for the below purposes.

1,To avoid awareness of my late husband's relatives because they're
the one that killed my husband and took over all his properties and
chased us away because I do not have a male child without considering
the welfare of me and my only daughter. They collected everything and
now after my life. 2,To avoid awareness of the government of my
country about the money since my husband was a former politician and
government contractor here in my country and once I receive your
positive response, I will give you more details to enable us to
proceed.

Kind regards,
Mrs Althaea Henkel

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