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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 patrick <stellapatrick04@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:32:51 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dearest friend,

Dearest friend,

How are you and my regards to your family, well, I hope You will acknowledge this mail in good faith, believing you are a honest and trustworthy person. I believe you will not betray the confidence I am willing to repose in you, for me to have contact you even though we've not met or known each other before.

I am Mrs Stella Patrick from britain,I am 48 years old,i am
suffering from a long time cancer of the breast,from all indication my
conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that i
can't work or do any stressful thing, according to my doctors they
have advised me that i may not live for the next two months,this is
because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought
up from a motherless babies home was married to my late husband for
twenty years without a child ,My Husband (Stella Patrick) died in a
fatal motor accident Before his death we were true Christians.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited
belongings and deposited all the sum of $5.5million dollars with a
Security Firm in UK, of which they don't know the content of the luggage. They only know that i have a family valuables in the luggage .Presently this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to
come forward to receive my luggage for keeping it so long will attract
a demurage fees as the security fees paid by me has expired or rather
issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf
since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it
confisticated.

So instead of getting it confiscated i rather have someone whom i can
trust to recieve the funds and utilise it according to my wishes.And
the best part of it is ,The security company told me in the letter
that they can have the luggage delivered to my approved next
of kin in his house if within Uk or out side Unitedkingdom.
Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital in Frankfurt Germany where
I have been undergoing treatment for my sickness . I have since lost
my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a 2
months to live.

It is my last wish to see that this money is invested/donated to any
organisation/buisness of your choice and distributed each year among
the charity organization,E.g the poor homes,the motherless babies home
where i came from,the deaf homes,and churches etc .
All i seek for is a God fearing person like you ,who will carry out my
last wishes and before i emailed you today i prayed and the holy
spirit gave me the confidence to send you this email.I took this
decision, before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up. As
soon as I receive your reply I shall proceed with further arrangements of how the company will deliver the luggage to you.

All i need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when
recieved by you will be used for the said purpose,Nowadays there are
so much scams going on in the internet and it is diffcult to trust but
i dont know why the Holy spirit still approved me to email you about
this out of few email addresses i have from the internet,yours was the
only one that was
approved for me to contact.
Waiting for your reply.
Yours in GOD,

Mrs Stella Patrick




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