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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: MARGARET IGNACE <lignacemargaret@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 03:27:25 -0800
Subject: HELLO,

My Dear,
I'm Mrs. Margaret Ignace Luke, a dying widow hospitalized undergoing
treatment for brain tumor disease, It's my pleasure to contact you to
seek for your urgent assistance in this humanitarian social project to
be establish in your country for the mutual benefit of the orphans and
the less privileged ones, Which I believe that you will not expose or
betray this trust and confidence that I am about to entrust to you. My
late husband made a substantial deposit with the Bank which I have
decided to hand over and entrust the sum of ($ 12,500,000.00 Dollars)
in the account under your custody for you to invest it into any social
charitable project in your location or your country. Based on my
present health status I am permanently indisposed to handle finances
or any financial related project.

With this intention, I was determined to contact you in order to
sustain and assist me as my rightful appointed beneficiary and reclaim
the fund from the Bank and invest it into this humanitarian project
for the mutual benefits of the less privileged ones. Because If the
fund remains unclaimed with the bank I pass away, those greedy bank
executives will place the fund as an unclaimed Fund and share it among
themselves for their selfish and worthless ventures. In this regard, I
will be grateful for your kind acceptance to carry out this
transaction and fulfill my final wish in implementing the charitable
project in your country as it requires absolute trust and devotion
without any failure. Meanwhile It will be my pleasure to compensate
you as my Investment Manager/Partner with 40% percent of the total
amount as commission/share just for you to take this charitable
project serious and handle it with sincerity of mind, showing honesty
and attention in our communication and in every aspect of this
project, While 60% of the money will be invested into the charity
project. Or better still for more seriousness and attention you can
invest the total fund into your company or any lucrative Business
venture of your choice and donate and support the less privileged ones
from the revenue you make from the Business venture. I urge you to
assist me fulfill my last wish.

Thanks and God bless you for your obligation as I wait for your prompt response.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Margaret Ignace Luke.

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