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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: love valentined <lovevalentined2@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:26:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HUMANITERIAN SERVICES.



Dear Sir,

I need your kind assistance.

I am Mrs .Love Valentine Dokie, married to late Dr.Valentine Dokie, a
Liberian diamond merchants that was killed by Liberian Ex-Prsident Charles Taylor now on exile overthere in Nigeria. I only felt so sober anytime I remembered about my late husband and the sudden death that occured to his life that made me today a widow, May his Soul rest in Perfect Peace Amen! .
Presently, I am at the Lome-Togo Republic Rehabilatation Center here in West/Africa with my two little kid's among other refugees from Liberia. I have been able to come across some relevant documents in my husbands portifolio that contains his deposition of a huge quantities of DIAMOND contents worth of $40.5Million United States Of America dollars with a security company Overseas. I have been also able to contact the security company and they told me to come down with proofs that the late Dr.Valentine Dokie is my husband after their kind admittance that such consignments was confide in their possession by such a name and that without relevant documents of the goods with me, the consignment cannot be released to me which I agreed after much deleberations with them on the telephone.I was able to let them know that I am having the Original Certificate of this consignment made my late husband and that due to the nature of our conditions today here in Africa, I would like to send my
late husband's business partner whose fund was involved into the good's whom I will like to come down to claim out this consignment from them and they accepted but the person should come down with proofs. As I am a widow I will confide this consignment at your care so that you will travel down the security company overseas to claim this consignment on behalf of our family.

I will only introduce you to the security company as my husbands business partner after my kind confirmations of your sincerity and honesty to assist me and my Fatherless children so that you can travel to claim it out from the security company and take it down to your home country for self-keeping pending time of y visitation at your residence . I have accepted to offer you 10% for your all travelling expenditures down to the security company and the cargo handling charges to take this good's down to your country. I solemnly promised to offer you 10% as your personal compensation since you are coming to help the humilated and less privelleged family like us while the remaining 80% will be under your care for our family investment projects in your country because I will confidently trust everything's about this transaction and our future family project's at your care till to the successful end of this transaction.
Kindly confirm your interest as a humaniterian to help us through my private email address : mrslovevalentine@myway.com while I am waiting for your kind response in advance, and God Bless You!.

Thanks,

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Love Valentine Dokie


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