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: vican258@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:47:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: hi

Hello my dear how are you today ? hope is well with you ?. I am Miss
Victoria by name, i was impressed after came across your contact, when i
was online searching for a friend who truly use to understand his or
her friend and share their feelings and ideas together and be a honesty
to each other but to build such real relationship is most of 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 in
relationship which i am looking for and 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
as i will be
expecting your mail response to 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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