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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: Althea Henkel <rtrirct@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:36:26 +0300
Subject: Greetings Dear Friend,

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Greetings dear friend,

Having viewed your statue on-line which motivated me that you can be a
trusted person, I am contacting you in respect to my late husband's
money amount of (19,000,000.00 €) deposited in a bank for safe keeping
purposes. But right now my husband is dead and the financial firm has
been giving me several notifications to make the claim of the said
deposit, I want a situation whereby I will present you as my Executor
to the bank so that you assist me to make the claim of this fund from
the financial firm.

So that it will be transferred to your custody pending my arrival with
my only daughter to your country so that we can use it judiciously for
investment purposes, my only daughter will continue her education in
your country upon our arrival once every arrangement as regards this
transaction is concluded. I will be offering you 25% of the money for
your foreign assistance as long as you can help me in carrying out
this project effectively without insinuating greed and selfishness. I
am contacting you in this respect for the below purposes.

1,To avoid awareness of my late husband's relatives because they're
the one that killed my husband and took over all his properties and
chased us away because I do not have a male child without considering
the welfare of me and my only daughter. They collected everything and
now after my life. 2,To avoid awareness of the government of my
country about the money since my husband was a former politician here
in my country and once I receive your positive response, I will give
you more details to enable us to proceed.

Kindly contact me on this email for confidential discussion; rtrirch@gmail.com

Kind regards,
Mrs Althaea Henkel

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