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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 Mary Shumejda <internationalpaymentm.agency@gmail.com>
Reply-To: maryshumejda061@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 00:17:25 -0700
Subject: Dear Beloved,

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Dear Beloved,

Please accept my sincere apologies if my email does not meet your business
or personal ethics. I am Mrs. Mary Shumejda, I am 65 years old, a widow to
the late Mr. John Shumejda who was the President of agricultural equipment
giant AGCO Corp, who perished on the 4th of January 2002 in a plane crash
in Birmingham. Please View the Website below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/

After going through some files of my late husband, I discovered a Deposit
Certificate of (Nime Million Dollars) with a Bank here in the U.S.A. But
due to my sickness, I have not been able to claim this fund from the Bank,
as I have been in the hospital in the U.S.A. and my sickness continues
getting worse. I am suffering from a protracted cancer of the lungs which
has affected my brain. From all indications my condition is really
deteriorating and my doctors have courageously advised me that I may not
live beyond the next eight months, this is because the cancer stage has
reached a critical stage.

President Joe Biden said that some of the money held in dormant accounts
would be used to fund youth and community projects. I am contacting you
based on trust to present you to the bank as the Next of Kin and Bonafide
Inheritor to my Late Husband's fund, since I cannot claim this fund myself
now and I may not live beyond next eight months according to my Doctors,
but I have the faith in God that I will live more than the months my
Doctors said by God grace.

Presently, I'm with my notebook in the hospital where I have been
undergoing treatment in the U.S.A. Please! Please!! Your help is needed to
avoid this money being diverted to the U.S Government as an unclaimed
fund/dormant account. Imagine somebody who has no child, I have nobody
taking care of me here in the Hospital and the money I have now is limited.
Of which, that $9 Million is my only hope to continue my treatment here in
the Hospital, and hopefully by God grace I will survive. If you will be so
kind as to be of help, I will be very glad and only God will reward you for
that. Upon the successful claim/transfer of the fund in your account as the
next of Kin, 40% of the total fund will be taken as your own share, 40%
goes to the Orphanage homes, while the remaining 20% will be transferred
to my account here in the U.S.A. for my treatment. Please in your response,
send me the following information to enable me validate you as the legal
beneficiary of this funds :

(1). Full names:
(2). contact address:
(3). Phone:
(4). Cell phone:
(5). Age:
(6). Occupation
{7). Your country

Thanks, and God bless.

Mrs.Mary Shumejda

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