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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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Fraud email example:

From: "DOROTHY, THOMAS KEMPSON" <dthkempson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:42:06 +0300
Subject: PLEASE! PLEASE !! PLEASE !!!


From:- Mrs. Dorothy Thomas Kempson
52 Oxford Street,
London, SW1Z1BV UK.



Dear Friend

Here writes Mrs.Dorothy Thomas Kempson suffering from a cancerous ailment.
I am married to Mr. Sean Thomas Kempson, an Englishman who died in a plane
crash when he was going for his business proposal in Ilhéus, who flew
through Salvador on Friday 2nd of May 2008.

Please copy and paste this Internet link for more information on the
incident:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/05/britons.missing.after.brazil.plane.crash

My late dear husband was into Diamond Business Practice all his life before
his death. Our life together as a man and wife lasted for three decades
without a child. My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and
the less-privileged individuals as he had a passion for persons who can not
help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament.

I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this
relationship, which never came. When my late husband was alive he deposited
the sum of 7.5 Million(Seven Million, Five hundred thousand Great Britain
Pounds) Sterling which was derived from his vast diamond business, real
estate, and investment in the capital market with his bank here in the UK.
Presently, this money is still with the Bank. After his death, my Doctor
told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am
suffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to
cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen my family, and me I have
decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which
comes from my husband's effort to fund the upkeep of the less privileged,
and the restitutes.

Please contact me to enable me to instruct you on how you are to go about
distributing these funds on my behalf.

May God Almighty bless you as well as the Doctor (Mr. Bobby Jack) who
helped me to type this message. reply to this email, dthkempson@gmail.com
Hope to hear from you soon.

Warmest Regards,
Mrs. Dorothy Thomas Kempson

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