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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: "Mrs. Olga Patarkatsishvili" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsolgaatarkatsishvili@w.cn>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:49:42 +0530
Subject: Greetings From Georgia

Dear friend,
 
How are you today? I hope by the special grace of God you are doing wonderfully well! I will like to apologize for contacting you in this manner over a transaction of this magnitude since we all know that the internet is not a safe means of communication but it was due to a matter of necessity, i had to do a thorough search on the internet and finally came across your email. I will rather start by introducing myself, I am Mrs. Olga Patarkatsishvili, the wife of late multi-billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, he was found dead at about 10.45 pm, Tuesday February 12, 2008 at our Surrey mansion in United Kingdom, at the age of 52, a month after running unsuccessfully for the Georgian presidency. My husband was one of the "oligarchs" who made a fortune from the privatization of state-owned industries during the Yeltsin era and eventually found a haven in Britain, where he was recently linked to a possible bid for West Ham football club. My marriage to Badri came as a surprise and was done
 
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5683550.ece
http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=11794
 
 
I hope after reading through the above websites, you will see that me and my little son is in a very tough and difficult situation, as we are currently battling with my husband's wife, business partners, Georgian authorities, cousin and his solicitors over his wealth because he didn’t leave any will behind, this has made life so frustrating for me and my little son. Everything he left for us secretly which includes, banks accounts (both foreign accounts) and properties were confiscated except for a profiling cash amount of Fifty million eight hundred thousand United States dollars that he deposited as diplomatic baggage with a European firm shortly before he died, I have all documents relating to these deposit and every other information to proof my legitimacy, this I will definitely sent to you only once you prove to me that you are genuine, honest, transparent and dedicated to help us. We want you to stand as a beneficiary to retrieve the above quote d sum as my representative. I kno
For your willingness and acceptance to help us, you shall receive twenty five percent of the whole sums and an additional five percent for expenses once the transaction is completed. I know with this kind of magnitude of funds I am offering for your help, you won't be greedy to give us our share once you have made claims. If you know you can do this, then get back to me immediately through my private email:  mrsolgapatarkatsishvili@w.cn   so that I can furnish you with more details.
Thanks for your understanding.
 
 
Remain blessed,
Mrs. Olga Patarkatsishvili.
               
       

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