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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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Fraud email example:

From: Patricia Matins <patricia.matins1@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: patricia_matins@hotmail.fr
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:09:34 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hi Beloved one,


 Hi Beloved one,
 
I was given your contact information by a pastor .The pastor ask me to contact you and tell you my problem and ask you for assistance.So  I desieded to contact you. I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise but I will like you to take this as one of the things people over come on this earth. And I know that it is God that led me to get your contact so that you will be of help to me. Before I will go on let me introduce my self to you so that you will be able to know me well.
 
My name is Miss Patricia Matins my mother is from Liberia  why my father is from Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa. My father and my mother where living in Liberia and I was born in Liberia. My mother died in Liberia when the war break into Liberia and my Father took me to his country Cote D'ivoire where he Established a company . I am the only daughter to my parents so when my father took me to Abidjan in Cote D'ivoire this is my first time to visite cote d'ivoire since i was born.
 
I am with my father happenly  till on the 1st of January 2007 my father Came back from a family meeting arround 10.15p.m in the night and he started to vormite blood from his mount so before he was taking to the hospital he died on our way to the hospital . So when my father's doctor came and take a text on him he find out that he was given poisson . So after the burial of my father his brothers send me away I mean my uncles and they said that I am not the daughter of there brother so they took all my father had, houses and his company and they wanted to kill me before i ran away . when they told me to hand over the documents that my father gave to me when he is about to die so i refused to hand them over the documents so they wanted to take it with force so i escapt and ran to another city where i am now.
 
So as you my know i am now 22yrs old and a lady i can not fight my uncles and claim all they have takeing from me because they are about Six in number and they are very wicked so i deside to take this documents to meet a pastor .So it is when i meet this pastor that i find out that the documents is a documents that my father used to deposit some money in a local bank here in this country so after going through the documents i find out that the amount that was deposited by my father in a suspence account is £18.600.000.00 Euro  (Eigtheen Million Six Hundred Euro).
 
So the pastor took me to the bank to see the bank director so the bank director said that they can not release the money to me unless it is transfered to a foriegn account . He said that it is what my late father said that the money have to be transfered to a foriegn account before it can be tuched.
 
Now i did not know anyone oversea and i did not have a foriegn account . So when i told the pastor about this so he gave me your contact information to contact you so that you will help me to transfer this fund to your account so that i will come over to your country for you to assist me and invest the money in your country. So this is why i  need your help.
 
Please let me ask you this question can i trust you? Will you not disapoint me? How can i trust you? So please i want you to reply to me if you know that you will not disapoint me or if you know that when i give you the contact of the bank and the informations about this fund then you will not help me again.
 
But if you know that you are not ready to help me please do not reply to this mail.
I will give you the information about this fund and the bank when i receive your reply.
 
Waiting for your Good response.
 Miss Patricia Matins

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