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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. Katie Richard" <kat.j9005@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:31:14 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT FUND

Greetings to you!

I'm contacting you based on your good profiles I read and for good
reasons,Though I have not met with you before, I believe that one has to
risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. Coming with this
decision was not easy for me, but this is the only option left for me to
partnership with you

My name is Mrs. Katie Richard. My late husband deals in Crude Oil with the
Federal Government of Sudan and he has a personal Oil firm in Bentiu Oil
zone town and Upper Nile city. What I have experience physically, I don't
wish to experience it again in my life due to the recent civil Ethnic war
cause by our President Mr. Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Dr Riek Machar,
I have been Under United Nation refugee camp in Chad to save my life and
that of my little daughter.

Though, I do not know how you will feel about my proposal, but the truth is
that I relocated to Chad, our neighboring country where we stay as
refugees. I escaped with my little daughter when the rebels burst into our
house and killed my husband as one of the oil dealers in the country, ever
since then, I have been on the run.

I left my country and move to Chad our neighboring country with the little
ceasefire we had, due to the face to face peace meeting accord coordinated
by the US Secretary of State, Mr John Kerry and United Nations in Ethiopia
(Addis Ababa) between our President Mr Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Dr
Riek Machar to stop war.

I want to solicit for your partnership with trust to invest the $8 million
dollars deposited by my late husband in Bank because my life is no longer
safe in our country, since the rebels are looking for the families of all
the oil business men in the country to kill, saying that they are they one
that is milking the country dry. As soon as I hear from you I will instruct
the bank Management to make the transfer to your bank account. I will offer
you 20% of the total fund for your help while I will partner with you for
the investment in your country.

I will wait to hear from you so as to give you details.
With love from
Mrs. Katie Richard

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