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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: mordestarvitenus <mvitenus@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: mordestarvitenus@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:28:14 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dearest one please help me out of this country please.








Hello Dearest one,

           I bring you greeting in the name of the lord Jesus Amen, My name is Mordestar Vitenus the only child to Mr Kelvin Vitenus who past away in the year of 3 march 2010 and leaving alone me and a wealth in which was left in a bank here in my country a money whoting about$16.5millionUsd in which i will like you to help me to tranfer to your account.

    Because of my age i can not be able to handle this  which i would not let my relatives  knows  about, because they are not happy with me,  all the investment they have claim all they want now is my life because of the money please for Christ sack save my life from evil relatives, woman don't  inherit wealth their comments,  which i would not give my dad properties to evil relatives, thats why i want you to stand as my next of kin and i promise to give to you a 35 percent of this fund and also i will like to come over there in your contry so that i can be able to finish my education and also do some investment too.
 Kindly send me the below details so that i can direct my Bank to effect the transfer of the funds to your operational bank account in your country.
please save my life and help me out of this country, 

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sincerly your's
Mordestar Vitenus.

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