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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: ruslanfnmi@inbox.lv
Reply-To: margretdennis@outlook.com
Date: 16 Apr 2024 02:53:04 -0700
Subject: Margret Dennis

My Dear Beloved Friend,

Sorry for contacting you through this medium, however i do not
have any other choice as I am a patient in dare need. I am Mrs
Margret Dennis from London and am aged 68 years suffering from
endometrial cancer. Please, I want you to help me create a
charitable project with the money that I inherited from my
deceased husband who died in a motor accident.

I was brought up from a motherless baby's home and was married
to my late husband for twenty nine years without a child, my
friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness and
I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge
responsibility to any of them anymore, so I sold all my inherited
belongings and deposited all the sum of £9,000,000 GBP (Nine
Million Pounds) with my bank.

All I need is an honest person who will use at least % 70 of the
funds as I would instruct, then the rest % 30 will go to you for
helping me accomplish this mission because donating this money to
charity is the only legacy I can leave behind after my death, No
money is required from you to carry on with this project because
it is my heart desire to make a generous gift to you to work for
a charity in your country.

I don't mind if you are a Christian or Muslim or Hindu or
Buddhist rather my only paramount concern here is whether I can
trust you because this generation is filled up with greedy and
fraudulent people all over the world. I will give you more
details as soon as I hear from you.

Looking forward to your urgent response, on my private Email:
margretdennis@outlook.com

Kind regards.
Mrs Margret Dennis

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