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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: Monica Wolley <monicawolley3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 11:52:55 +0000
Subject: globally

Greetings to You,

How are you doing?

CAN I TRUST YOU?

I am Mrs.Monica Wolley,from Haiti, I am 68 years old, i am suffering from a
long time cancer of the breast, from all indication my conditions is really
deteriorating and it is quite obvious that I can't work or do any stressful
thing business, according to my doctors they have advised me that I may not
live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten
to a very bad stage.

Presently, I am in the hospital 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 2 more months to live. What I seek is a person who will
carry out my last wishes. I need your help with my charity project.

Can you help me accomplish my dying wish to help the poor people? because I
was brought up from a motherless Babies home, my late husband died in a
fatal motor accident so I decided not to re-marry and I have some funds I
inherited from my late loving husband, the sum of $1,250,000.00 ( One
Million, Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars ).
Can you invest the funds into any good business so that you can make more
money and use it for Charity work?, Helping the Less privileges?.
20% of this funds will be for your time, while 80% goes to charities.
And I don't have any family or child that will inherit the funds from me if
I leave it at the bank.

These funds are ready for immediate transfer to any designated account upon
my authorization.
My time will soon be up. As soon as I receive your reply I will email the
bank and give you the contact of the bank.
All I need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when
received by you will be used for the said purpose.

You may ask why I don't want to invest in the charities directly or send
the funds to their account? My answer is no. I had a bad experience in the
past at one of the motherless Babies homes where I was betrayed by one of
them after he received funds.

I want you to invest the funds in a good business so that you can use the
profit to help the poor people globally.

Yours faithfully,
Monica Wolley

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