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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: Mrs Nicole Germaine <usresignationdepartment@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.nicolegermaine@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 10:06:43 +0100
Subject: Hello Dear

Good day my dear friend,



I am happy to write you this mail



Before I proceed, please permit me to introduce myself, I am Ms. Nicole
Germaine, a 67 Years old widow of Late Michael Germaine who died alongside
our only child David in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998
while they were flying from New York to Geneva.

Because my husband was a successful businessman and a philanthropist, we
usually give support to the less privileged; donating most of our assets
and funds to charity. This is the gesture we continued with until the death
of my husband.

However at one time, my husband told me a story of how he received an
anonymous help from a stranger he met through the internet who gave him a
lot of money through which he became successful in life, my husband made me
to make him a promise that even if he die, i should not fail to reciprocate
the same gesture to another individual and that I am willing to accomplish
now.

Unfortunately, I am down with cancer which after several failed surgeries,
the doctors at the hospital concluded that i may not live till the next two
months. As much as I am a Christian and believe in God's miracle, I want to
use this opportunity to accomplish the promise I made to my late husband by
locating an unknown individual and reciprocate that gesture which my
husband received from the stranger many years ago that made him successful.

I am very happy to search and locate you by the spirit of God to
reciprocate the gesture to you as the stranger I am looking for. I have
searched for several people but the Spirit of God instead redirected me to
you so I would like you to become the beneficiary and next of kin to the
money we have left in the bank. Because of my health status, I want you to
receive the money before I die.

The money is a total of $950,000,00 which I left in my bank account and I
have instructed the bank manager to assist whoever I will be introducing to
him to receive the money. So I will be introducing you to the bank manager
to receive the money.

One thing I will plead is that when you receive the money; please try to
give out at least %40 to the poor and indigent people around, especially
those affected by the harsh economic condition of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
They will in turn reciprocate the gesture to others and it continues like
that. This will help me to accomplish my parting gift to humanity.

I will only need you to send me your full names and contact address to
write an authorization letter to my bank manager to release the money to
you.



Kindly send the information through my private mail box
mrs.nicolegermaine@gmail.com



With love and regards from your friend.



Ms. Nicole Germaine

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