Scam Victim Stories

Many of the victim scam stories below were gathered threw out the internet and compiled. The source will be posted along with the story.

Woman loses $400,000 to a 419 Inheritance Scam

Photo of Janella Spears, a Oregon woman who lost a whooping $400,000 to a Nigerian Scammer

Janella Spears, a registered nurse from Sweet Home, Oregon, said she started sending money to the scammers in 2005 after she received an email promising her several million dollars from a long-lost relative. In what is commonly known as a 419 scam – named after a section of the Nigerian criminal code – the fraudsters randomly contacted Spears over the internet, claiming they would offer her a substantial cut of $20.5m fortune in return for the cash injection which would help move it out of the country.

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