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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 Ali Marty <stellaali2@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: j_marty@fastermail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear Friend.


Dear Friend.

I greet you in the name of our lord. My name is Mrs. Stella Ali Marty. I know you will see my letter to you as an embarrassment considering the fact that we do not know ourselves.

I plead with you to be patient with me I feel very pleased to contact you for some assistance and business relationship. I am a Citizen of BAHAMAS ISLAND, married to a Nigerian. I live in London. My late husband was a loving, caring and hard working man who died on saturday, 22 october 2005, BELLVIEW PLANE CRASH[Flight 210] after taking off from lagos with the whole (117) passengers aboard dead.The name of my deceased husband his Christian Marty. Before the sudden death of my beloved husband, my late husband intended to establish a business in the united states of America with the sum of $30 million united states dollars,but unfortunately he died before this proposed venture.

Following his death, his family members insisted that I am not entitled to his property (Assets and money) since I am a woman and I have no child to my late husband, Well according to some barbaric traditional laws in Nigeria (Africa) which doesn't permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as they are expected by tradition to take over the management of his properties including myself who automatically becomes a wife to one of his immediate brothers.Unfortunately to this wicked family members, the $30 million united states dollars which my late husband intended to use in establishing a businessin the United States was deposited in a bank account in London unknown to his family.I and the Attorney is the only one aware of this money,so I have discussed this matter with the attorney that I want this money personally to take care of myself since my husband's family members claim everything.According to the attorney, the best way to secure this money is to transfer this money
to a bank account out side London For safe-keeping, later it will be used for business establishment subject to the Advise of whosoever finally assists us. At this juncture, I therefore ask for your sincere assistance in providing us with your bank details and the enablement to facilitate the remittance of this fund into your nominated account.As soon as I get your positive response, I shall provide you with all the necessary detail for this transfer. However, I have decided to give you 30% of the total money as a reward for your sincere assistance and the remaining 70% of the money will be for my investment as I will want to keep aglow my late husbands dream of investing in real estate,to be able to help me, kindly send through my email, your personal details including your contact information for easy communication.Thanking you for your anticipated response. Please note that the attorney base in London as soon as I received your response I will give you the attorney
contact. can see the

I await your response.

Mrs. Stella Ali Marty.

N/B
PLEASE IT TAKES ME TIME TO CONTACT YOU DUE TO THE NUMBER OF SCAM MAILTHAT I DO RECEIVED ALL OVER THE GLOBAL. TRUTH AND TRUST ARE MY WATCH WORDS



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