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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: sandra collins <s_collinsci08@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: sandracollinsxx@myway.com
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:48:10 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Message From: Miss Sandra Collins.

Dearest one,

I will be glad if you will honour my mail and reply to it with kind desire to assist me, what a beautiful thing to find you in my life and send you this mail with a willing heart and strong desire to be your friend forever. My dear, it is true that we have never met before in this life but
relationship begins one day and if you can be sincere with me to achieve what faith has in stock for us; I will forever be your future friend either for better or for worse.

In a nutshell, I am a good humble girl and I will begin by introducing myself to you, but I would not want you to find this message so quick or too sudden, it is my case that demands the urgency and I will need your kindness attention over it.

My name is Sandra Collins. From Sierra Leone in West Africa, I am 22years old the only daughter of late Mr/Mrs James Collins. I reside in orphanage house to accomplish my desire over my inheritance. I am confiding this matter to you without any doubt and I will need your sincere co-operation
concerning this opportunity for our future benefit. Without any doubt or heart breaking, I want you to promise me your will help over this reality of my life and I will make an agreement with you to pay you any price you may request in return after you get me out of the whole mess.

Shortly, I have a heritage in my name with a fiduciary holder in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, My late father deposited this treasure box as family valuable materials and he ask me not to declare the content of this box to anybody for security reasons best known to him and that I should seek for the
help of a reputable business man or my husband to be who is capable of handling business because the consignment Contained cash dollars and the total amount in the Box is; Four Million Five Hundred United State Dollars (4.500,000.00) cash which was recover from his business with some France Cocoa
merchant and Investors when he sold a large hectares of Cocoa farm to them.

Though, we have not met before but I believe one has to risk confiding to succeed sometimes in life. The death of my late father gave my mother intensive illness that paralyzed both hands and her legs until last year she died too. But my problem is that I need assistance to retrieve the box as
the right beneficiary but there are some outstanding demurrage charges to be cleared before I can be able to grant access to the box and my personal intension is to transfer the consignment to your country for peace and foreign business establishment when we recover the fund deposited in it
without the concept of my late fathers family who became my obstacle to any of my late fathers properties after his death.

Please we have many things to talk about or do together if you will help me. I will give you all the proofs of this consignment if you promise me your full support with sincere heart and that you will take care of me when I arrive into your country.

I will be more grateful if you can keep this matter confidential between you and me while I will be waiting to receive your kind response with your telephone and fax number for easy communication.

Thanks and God bless.

With love and care

Miss Sandra Collins.



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