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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.Joyce Ballo" <paschalludo40@gmail.com>
Reply-To: joyceballogodhelp@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:15:59 -0700
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU TO EXECUTE MY PROJECT?

Dear

Good day My good friend, how are you and your beloved family, it's a
pleasure to write to you in this media and to express my health
predicament to you my dear friend, as i am suffering from a long time
cancer of the breast and throat, from all indication my conditions is
really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I can't work or do
any stressful thing, according to my doctors they have advised me that
I may not live for the next 4 months.

With warm hearts I offer my friendship, my greetings, I hope this
letter meets you in good time. I write you this letter from a
sorrowful and emotional Laddered soul that needs compassion from a
kind and good spirited person to carry out my last wishes and I will
very much appreciate it and promise you that you will not regret this
day as long as your heart is pure and sincere. I am MRS .JOYCE BALLO
, 51 years old from Toyonaka Osaka. I came across your profile while
doing research on Facebook and AMERICAN medicine on Google, so I saw
your profile on the site and my spirit pushed me to contact you for
help.

This is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was
brought up from a motherless baby’s home, and was married to my late
husband for twenty years without a child. My husband Late Alexandra
PAUL who worked with America Embassy Washington D.C for eleven years
before he died in a fatal motor accident before his death in the year
2013.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited
belongings and deposited all the sum of $13.3 (THIRTEEN MILLION, THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S.DOLLARS) into my nonresidential account. My late
husband brother took away $2,500,000 from me and ran away without
knowing that my late husband who died in a car accident left some
money in my name and total amount left in my name was $5 million and
after selling all my properties I realized $8.3 million and deposit it
into my nonresidential account in Turkey, So the total amount I have
now is $10,800,000 million dollars.

I have decided not to have anything to do with my late husband brother
again in this life because they do not care about me and only wish me
death, I was a successful retired senior nurse but he almost rendered
me useless, at this moment, he do not know where I am or my where
about and I do not care.

I have no one else in this life. And the best part of it is, the
paying bank told me in the letter that they can have the funds
released to my approved person that was authorized by me so that the
funds will be transferred to his or her bank account anywhere in the
world.

Presently, I am using my laptop in the hospital at ST PETERSBURG
RUSSIA where I have been undergoing treatment for my sickness. I have
since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have
only 4 more months to live.

It is my last wish to see at least 60% of this money is
invested/donated to any organization/business of your choice and
distributed each year among the charity organization, e.g. the poor
homes, the motherless babies home where I came from and giving you 40%
to help yourself since I do not have more than four months to leave in
this world.

What I seek is a kind and good spirited person who will carry out my
last wishes. Before I wrote to you today I prayed and my spirit gave
me the confidence to send you this email. I made this decision before
I rest in peace because my time will soon be up.

As soon as I receive your reply I will give you the contact
information of the paying FINANCIAL LOGISTICS COMPANY IN CHARGE OF
THE FUND with instruction on how and who to contact in regards to this
matter at hand. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will
prove you as the original- beneficiary of this said fund.

I want you to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd. All
I need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when
received by you will be used for the said purpose. Nowadays it is
difficult to trust but I don’t know why my spirit still accepts and
approves of me writing you an email about this because I do not want
someone who will run away with my money and not fulfill my wishes, you
are the first and last person i will contact about this matter.

You can contact me on my Email and please I want you to always pray
for me because the lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a
life of a worthy GOD fearing.

Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for an
individual or organization for this same purpose.

Feel free to go into this with me. Please endeavor to use 60% of this
money for Charity organization donation and less privileged and have
40% for yourself. However, I am sincerely seeking your confidence in
this transaction, which proposes with my free mind and as a person of
integrity from God. Please assure me that you will accept accordingly
as I stated here and your response would be highly appreciated.

Kindly Send me your information stated below:

1... Your full names.

2... Your complete address.

3... Your mobile cell telephone number.

4... Your Occupation.

5... Position.

6... Date of Birth.

7... Nationality.

8... International passport, driver’s license, copy, send it by email
attachment.

Reply me through my private email address: joyceballogodhelp@gmail.com

THANK YOU SO MUCH

Mrs.Joyce Ballo

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