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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: Flordevilla Pingkrian <konediane1999@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pingkienflordevlila1959@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:35:25 -0700
Subject: RE: Hello My Dear I Contact You in Good Faith.


My Dear I contact you in good faith.
May the peace of the Almighty God be with you and your Family,

With Due Respect and Humility, I was compelled to write to you under
humanitarian grounds. My donation to you in good faith.

I'm Mrs Pingkien Flordevlila, Philippine Origin but married to Late Sir
Ratnavale from the UNITED KINGDOM. I have taken a personal decision to
donate what I inherited from my late husband to the Charity, less
privilege, I am 72 years old and I have been diagnosed with cancer since
the past 4 years, immediately after the death of my husband. We were both
married for many years without a child, I took this decision because I
don't have any child that will inherit this money.

My late husband was The chairman/CEO of K: E global industries and a
philanthropist based in LONDON. I have decided to donate a fund through
Credit Account (£2,500.000 GBP-British Pound) (Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand GBP-British Pound) to you for this assignment, Charity, less
privilege, building of schools, hospitals and also for the assistance of
the poor widows, Motherless babies, Charity organization, CHRISTIAN OR
MUSLIM, and orphans. I don't know you in person but God knows you, so
contacting you for this assignment is a direction from the holy spirit of
God to donate this fund outside this country through you as my late husband
has already donated a lot in this country,

My present condition has really taught me that all the wealth in this world
is vanity, So you have to make sure that you use this donation fund as I
have directed so that the name of the Almighty God will be glorified
forever. Your urgent response is required in this matter due to my present
critical condition of my health, it was a Sister nurse working in this
hospital that helped me to type this message, because I am losing strength
every minute of the day. All I need from you is prayers that God will
accept my soul in case I didn't survive this surgery. Also pray for the
soul of my late Husband to rest in peace.

Please always be prayerful all through your life, we are visitors on this
earth and we must be very careful in whatever we do so that our soul will
not be a waste. I wish you all the best and may God bless you abundantly. I
AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY.

Remain blessed in God. Yours.

Mother Pingkien Flordevlila.

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