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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: "MRS YVONNE C.BOLTON" <t76yoo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:10:09 +0000
Subject: DEAREST BELOVED ONE,

Dear Beloved one,

I pray this mail finds you in a state of your sound health and
indomitable spirit. My private email address as follows:
(mrsyvonne.cbolton@yahoo.com) Please, I would like to confide in you
for your honesty and truth for progress, I feel quite safe dealing
with you in this important Project.

Let me introduce myself to you, I am (Mrs. Yvonne Claire Bolton) from
a 40 years period of marriage life without produce any child or
pregnant, my late husband was very wealthy and after his death, I
inherited some part of his business and money in the bank.

The doctor has advised me that I may not live for more than three
months and 2 weeks and warn me to stop from thinking over who is going
to inherit me and the wealth.

Based on that, today I have decided to donate and contribute to the
less privileges, charity homes, and orphanage homes and to those
displaced by wars going on in the middle-east and around the world. I
made this decision after listing to the news line about 100 years old
woman who secretly donated her fortune and wealth upon her death,
follow up on this you-tube website bellow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8o-e-iLsUM

I choose you after many prayers as I'm devoted Christian and always
doing the right thing as I have the confident in you because I have
prayed over it.

I am willing to donate the sum of $20.5million U.S dollars, to the
less privileged of which you will be responsible in taking care of the
disbursement and sharing of this money to organizations that I will
appoint. Meanwhile, you will also get 30% of the money which will be:
six million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($6,150,000) as
your compensation for helping me fulfill this desire of donation.


Not only money, also gold bars quantity of (950kg) which worth
($28.5Million US Dollars) which will go for building of companies in
the name of the charity organization in our name Mr. Mrs. Yvonne
Claire Bolton: for memorial propose, Please I want you to note that
this fund is still in the bank where my late husband deposited it.


I am going to connect you with a man of god who I trust and in change
of this process, He will help to change the will to your name: also
help you on how to get the application to applied to the bank for the
transfer of the funds into your providing account.

The documents all will be change in your name: I honestly pray that
this money and gold when transferred to your account will be used for
the said purpose even though I am late then or alive, because I have
come to find out that wealth acquisition is not always the final thing
in life or death if you do not help people as well when they need it.


Please bear it in mind that that all the money and the gold will
rightfully belong to your name as quickly as I get your reply, and I
made the promise to god that the fund will be used to help the needy
and the less privileges.


May the grace of our lord the love of god and the fellowship of god be
with you and your entire family, please further discussion contact me
back for more details, I will need some information from you such as
follow:

Your private email address.
Your Private telephone Number.
A copy of your drivers Lances or Passport copy.

For a reason I will forward them to a Bishop Pierre Claver Malgo. A
Bishop from a Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso. He always encourages to
stop thinking he will helps you with the Bank contact to contact how
to received the funds, he is in-charge of the process in case I am no
more he will direct you as will of god direction, You have to keep
everything as top secret until the fund hits in to your providing
account or any of your transaction choice it’s ok.

I wait for your kind response,
My regards to your family.

Remain Blessed,
(Mrs. Yvonne Claire Bolton),

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