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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: "Fernando Marin" <stellaoduah42@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 07:53:44 -0300
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CAN_YOU_HANDLE_THIS_FOR_ME=3F?=


Attention please,

Good day and greetings from here.

I am Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, a Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, I am sorry to break into your privacy for writing you this mutual business, I got your contact from a social media site and was move by a spirit which i believe it's for good to contact you for this life time business.
I have this certain amount of money lodged in an account with Bank Of Africa Benin Republic.
I am having a suit here in my country as i am a current senator representing my local government.
I lost my son last year, but i want you to handle this transaction for me. The money was has been in BOA Benin for long now was planned to be invested in a good business in any country other than Nigeria and i want you stand as my next of kin or business partner to claim this money with BOA Benin.

I am offering you a 40% of the money once the total money has been successful transferred into your account, then i will come over to meet with you and plan on how to execute my business plans over there with you.
You can read more about me online, i am a very honest and kind woman...

Let me know if i can trust you in handling this transaction and i will give you details on how to proceed.

Thanks and have a good day.

Regards
Senator Stella Oduah

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