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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: "olga heinrich" <olgaheinrich1@latinmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:44:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: HELP


GUTEN TAG ,

Please i hope you would not be embarassed
by this.actually i am a german, who got
married to a lebanese man 16 years ago,that
was in 1988.my husband is someone that can be
described as rich .He is
well acquainted with business and thus had
several companies which include ABOMAR gas and
oil limited ,andy best trransporting agencies as
well as a large palm plantation.His asset is about $10.2MILLION.
inaddition to the liquidcash which is about $3.6million in the
bank, which i have deposited with the central bank
of Nigeria . I left lebanon exactly 2 weeks ago due to
the crisis, my husband insisted that i leave to nigeria ,
where he has some of his business lebanese friends
i came to nigeria and for the past 2 weeks i have
been searching for them and yet to see them .
i received some informations that my husband may
be dead and i just do not know what to do .
Please am an ophan and i have no place to go to .
Please i need your help , because i want to pay the
money into a foreign account and when i get to germany
i will give you an account number to pay the money and
also note that am paying you for this . please am so sorry
for any inconveniece this may cause . i need your help .
Please contact me immediately. istrongly beleive i can bank on
you.Please
you can write me through
olgaheinrich127@yahoo.de.. or 234-8035479364

OLGA

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