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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: "Princess Cristina Infanta" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infantacristina6@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:20:32 +0100
Subject: My Family Need Your Help

Dearest in Christ,
 
 
You can read the news on voice of america just to tell you the world knows about my probe.
 
http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-spanish-princess-testifies-in-corruption-probe/1847292.html?utm_medium=email
 
 
With all due respect and Humanity. Let me first of all inform you that i got your email addresses from your domain email server mail Directory as trusted email users and i decided to send my letter to your email addresses for assistance. I am Princess Infanta Cristina the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos from Spain. I am married to Mr. Iņaki Urdangarin who is a retired handball player also own a construction company in Europe and Asia for twenty Years and other foundation,
 
My husband and i need your assistance and if you give us a help in this situation that we are in, my self and my husband promise to reward you to share the deal 40/60 with you if we can trust you to act accordingly, this mean you will keep 40 percent of the funds while my husband and i keep 60.
 
The news is all around the world and as its my husband and i are under probe, my reason for writing you is to ask for your assistance and if you chose to help me and my entire family in this critical situation you will be rewarded more when we come to meet in person, we are under investigation probe which keeps my husband and i in a tight corner from traveling and other personal activities, from all indication our condition is really deterioration and it is quite obvious that we won't live the country for personal activities until the investigation is over according to our lawyer.
 
I Princess Infanta Cristina the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos need your assistance to act as a beneficiary to be able to move the sum of Two million euro to your account from our foriegn account with the Nat West bank all in the name of investment.
 
I will be waiting for a mail response and a brief information about you if you are willing to help mey self and the entire family, immediately i have information about you i will forward it to my lawyer in the United State while he use that to prepare every document to keep the funds documents under your name, remember that if you are willing to help my family in this situation you must learn to keep this secret from public as my husband and i do not want the world to know anything about this as we are already on probe over fraud corruptions understood.
 
i Await an urgent reply from you and also you must be trusted in this because we would not want someone who will take advantage of he situation, please email me via my private email where no one can read or detect my massages princessinfantacristina@gmail.com infantacristina6@gmail.com
 
 
Yours princess Cristina.

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