419 scam: Victoria Anderson <gift4love26@yahoo.se> hi

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Victoria Anderson <gift4love26@yahoo.se>
Reply-To: victoria_ab200@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 22:16:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: hi

Hello my dear how are you today ? hope is well with you ?. I am Miss
Victoria by name, I came across your contact when i was searching for
good and honesty friend, a friend who truly use to understand his or her
friend and share their feelings together and be honest partner to each
other but to build such real love is our challenges in life because
mostly we love our selves and not others and Untrust our selves before
other, if not this there will be real love which i am looking for and i I
believe that you understand life more than i do that staying out of
sight does not mean out of mind or feelings and remember distance,
Age,Race, and Religion can never be a barrier but let love and honesty connect us as
it is a bridge that connected far distance to be-closer to each other
for feature hope and i will be expecting your mail response in my mail
box today after
reading this mail now which i will get back to you with my picture as
soon as i receive your mail and every of my information which you
deserve to know will be giving to you for us to step forward to see each
other face to face Ok. thanks and have a nice day.

Yours new friend,

Miss.Victoria.

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