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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: Stella Martins <stllmartins@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please help me out



Dear VICTIMNAME.

Thank you very much for your response, i am very sorry for the late response i was away for a seminar, actually i have not contacted you to waste your time or mine this is a very important transaction to me and as such i need some one who can keep secret and who understands life that is why i have chosen to do this with you.

When this transaction is realized it would really go a long way in helping the needy i have really made up my mind to use my own part of this deal to finance a foundation in Africa and the third world countries.

Please i will explain all about this transaction to you when i get your go ahead, i draw a lot of inspirations from your father whom am an ardent follower of , i believe in his dreams and his deeds, i hope we both can come together for this.

My meeting you is divine.

Old pirates yes they rob i
Sold i to the merchants ships
Minutes after they took us from the bottomless pit
By the hands of the Almighty
We forward in this generation, triumphantly.
(The great Bob VICTIMNAME)


Regards

Stella Martins



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