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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?herrina=20robinson?= <mrs_herrina_robinson02@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrs_herrina_robinson01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:31:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT APPROACH.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrs_herrina_robinson02@yahoo.co.uk

KINDLY REPLY AS MY DIRECTION.

- Dear friend.My name is Mss, Herrina Robinson.A citizen of the republic of Sierra Leone,iam the wife to Late Mr. Donald Robinson who worked with former President of Liberia. Mr. Charles Taylor, he was one of the special advisers of former president Charles Taylor, my husband wasassassinated on the 29/03/2006 during the arrest of former President Taylor between the Nigerian / cemeroon boader. I inherited a total sum of ($16, million. U S, Dollars) from my late husband, this money which isoncealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company in a westafrican country called accra ghana. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk box that was deposited in accra ghana under a diplomatic coverage for safe keeping.My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trust worthy to give you this priority of shipping!
the box of money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country with your percentage which we shall disscause on soon. In fact, since the death of my husband, their family brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats because i did not have any child for my late husband, they tried to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them,They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all the belonging account of my late husband, which I did, but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security, company in accra ghana.because this is where my future stand and destiny lies upon.The family of my late husband never aware of the secret existence of this deposit which I made with the security company and they can never be aware of it. Out of fear of my late husbands family, and when the situation becomes uncontrollable because !
of pressure on me from the Government of the Republic of Liberian, I d
ecide to look for a trust worthy person who could assist me retrieve this box of money from the security company for onward lodgement into his account for the purpose of future investment. Consider mysituationas a widow and come to my rescue.There is need for urgent action because I'm paying $20 dollars per day as a demurrage to the security company for safe keeping of this consignment.. I will send you the Authorization Certificate infomations to call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their company. I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you soon. Contact me through my private Email:mrs_herrina_robinson01@yahoo.co.uk i wish you All the best,And God bless. Regards, Mss, Herrina Robinson.


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