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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: Ms Patricia Poika <lindsey_marti@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: pollypat@mail.ru
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:41:31 +0900 (JST)
Subject: could you Invest?

Dearest Friend,

Because I am a girl and they said I do not have rights for any property except am married. They have requested to have my father's deposit papers but I simply told them that I do not know where he kept them. Right now, I am in the refugee camp and do sincerely want to travel out of my country.
This can only happen when I have secured the release my father treasures out of this country to a safe country. Because my uncle may took hold of this if he find out about the vault that is with the Security Company. This why it is important that we have a plan on the type of lucrative business
that l can invest on. I told you that am seeking your partnership in the investment of my inheritance from my late father who died mysteriously, he died in accident in France few years back. In my culture, when a man dies without a male child, His relatives share his property leaving both the
wife and his daughters empty handed.

This is the exact case with me as I am the only daughter of my father. I lost my mother when I was barely 6years old and my father refused to re-marry again because he felt solely responsible for my mother's death. This is so because he concentrated much on his businesses that he rarely pays
attention to domestic affairs. He was always travelling taking care of his businesses that he did not notice when my mother took ill. He thought it was a minor illness and was ignorant of this. My mother on her own resorted to self-medication. It was not until the illness degenerated that my
father took my mother to hospital where she was diagnosed to find out that hepatitis had eaten deep into her blood stream. She didn't last long before she died. This happened when I was barely 6year old. Based on this, my father could not forgive himself easily because of it and said he was
responsible for her death as he could have saved her if only he had paid attention to the things at home rather than concentrating much on his businesses.

I had at various times had discussions with the Security Company Director where my father deposited the family treasures and I was assured that once, I have someone who would be willing to receive this vault on my behalf they shall commence all proceedings to effect the release into the person's
designation country. Now, that you have signified your interest to partnership with me, it would only be very necessary if you contact the Security Company and request for the release of my inheritance to your designation country for the purpose of investment and to further have me come over to
your country to continue with my studies, it will be good if you can send your personal detail so that l will have to go and discuss with the Director in charge of the Security Company tomorrow to know if it is possible to start the process but l will like to know if you have all the quality in
this project am really glad you will be sending your detail like l have asked for but l still need more things from you like how long you have been working and what type of business you are into now .

I shall be giving you the company contact details as soon as l hear from you so you can write to them on my behalf please you should not worried about any danger because l have seriously discuss this with the company director and he has given me all assurance that the Vault will be release once
l get someone to help me with the investment

Talk to you the more and let me know your respond.

Ms. Cindy Patricia Poika




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