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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_robinson09@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrs_herrina200@excite.com
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:47:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: personal Approach,


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrs_herrina_robinson09@yahoo.co.uk

very urgent.

- Objet:Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:26:05 +0000 ,My name is Mrs, herrina Robinson. A citizen of the republic of Sierra-Leone,i am the wife to Mr. Donald Robinson who worked with former President of Liberia Mr. Charles Taylor,he was one of the special advisers to former president Charles Taylor, my husband was assassinated on - 29/03/2006 during the arrest of former President Taylor between the Nigerian / cemeroon boader. I' inherited a total sum of ($16 million united states Dollars) from my late husband, this money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company in a west african 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 trustworthy 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 yourpercentage of which we shall chat on soon. In fact, since the death of my husband, his brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats because i did not have any child for my husband, they tried to suppress me so that theymight have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them,Theyhave successfully, collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank 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 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 husband familys and when the situation becomes uncontrollable because of the pressure on me from the Government of the Republic of Liberia, I decide 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 my situation as 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 to my late husband on the very day when the box was deposited under their company.I will give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you soon.contact: E.mail:mrs_herrina200@excite.com, All the best,And God bless,Mrs, herrina Robinson.


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