419 scam: Stella Adams <c_cc_colins@yahoo.fr> HELLO MY DEAR

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Stella Adams <c_cc_colins@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: stella34adams@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:51:14 +0100 (BST)
Subject: HELLO MY DEAR

HELLO MY DEAR.

i am madams Vagba stella adams the wife of Mr Vagba Faussignaux a general commander of navy army in the time of Ex president Mr laurent gbagbo, my husband is in the prison with some of his friends because of what the whole world know about political problem that hit my country 2011, the republic of cote d'ivoire. now since last 2 months the government said that my husband run away from the prison with other two generals, since then we have not see any of them we are now asking the government to look for where their keep my husband because we have not see him and we did not see his body if his death.

before their stop him he has money which he deposited in one finance security company amount of the money is( $ 4 million dollars) which he wanted to transfer out of the country but he couldn't sussed before he was stop. since that time i and my two children we are in hiding place for our security reason.

please i am contacting you today just to ask for your assistance to claim this money out of the country and transfer it into any good foreign account you can give, please

what i want you to do is to stand as my husband foreign business partner so that this money will be transferd into your bank account please assist me because the new government are doing some checks in the country to see if their will see where this people keept their money to block them.

please i want you to assist me to claim this money and transfer it to your bank account, i have contact one of my husband lawyer to tell him about it so he will help us for the claim so that i and my children will come over and meet you, for your assistance i promise to give 15% from the money.
please i will be waiting for your reply as soon as possible, but if is not possible reply me to let me know so that i can look for another person because this is very urgent.

kind regards
Madame Vagba Stella.

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