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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: sherement-eva@voila.fr
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:35:29 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Good Day,




Good Day,



I am sending you this message to explain my problems to you to know if you can render a helping hand.



My name is MRS.SHEREMET EVA NADEZDA from RUSSIA. I am the wife of MR.BANOKOV NADEZDA. I lost my husband and the only daughter in the last Tsunami disaster that hit Japan March 11 2011. Before the death of my husband, he deals on coffee business.



Presently, I am having a big problem with my late husband's brothers because of the wealth and the landed properties he left behind. They forced me to release all his bank deposit informations and all the documents about his landed properties.



They did not stop there; they are monitoring my movements till today to the extent that I can not go out freely nor answer or make telephone calls.They can only give me food and shelter and nothing else. I can only have access to the internet at times when I am left with the little ones and our house security guard. It is because of this problem that I decided to contact you to help me from this ugly situation.



Because of my relationship with my husband, he told me before his death, about money he has in LONDON where he goes to do his investment reasach. The money was in a box deposited with an agent in LONDON and the amount is US$10.5 million. He made me to understand that the money was deposited as a family valuable for security reasons, in this case the officials of the LONDON security outfit does not know that the real content of the box is money.



The brothers of my late husband are not aware of this deposit and they will never know about it. I am therefore seeking for your assistance to help me secure the consignment from LONDON to your country for safety and investment.You can even go to LONDON so that you can see things for yourself.



Once I got your response to help me, I will get back to you with the details on how we should proceed.



I shall be waiting for your swift response.



Sincerely yours,



MRS.SHEREMETEVA NADEZDA

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