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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: <wroach@lqc.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:25:32 +0400
Subject: from MiraOldy

Hola my darling!

You are disturbed by administration of sites of acquaintances.
You are the member of this group.
One of our members interested in you and we send you the message delivered from MemberName=”MiraOldy”
This WOMAN wishes to get acquainted with you.
There is HER message:

Greetings the stranger, are Written by me to you from the big country of Russia, I have read your profile,
and you are interesting for me, I see you as a pleasant interlocutor,
I wish to get acquainted with you better and to exchange photos and not only.

I will be very glad if our relations do not stop on that that we will communicate only on correspondence,
I’ll be glad to meet you one day.

I will tell a little bit about myself:
I’m very nice, sociable and cheerful girl.
I’m 27 years old, growth 169, my eyes are brown, hair dark, weight of
48 kg, a sports constitution. I regularly visit fitness the centre to support the figure both to be in shape and to like men.

If you are self-assured and trust that can deserve my attention that write)) we will look that will turn out…………)

Mira.

You visit my personal page: http://yournetlove.ru


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