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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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Fraud email example:

From: villarra_nenita@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:09:03 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Your=20sister=20Nenita=2E?=

From;Mrs Villaran Nenita.
Phillipine.

Dear Respected One,

My name is Madam Villaran Nenita. A complete citizen of the Philippines,widow
to the late former minister of finance in Philippine who died on 15th of
May 2002. My husband fell sick and he was flown to France for treatment
but later died of ulcer and he has been buried.

I inherited a total sum of 22 million dollars from my late husband, this
money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security
and finance company here in Philippine. Due to the instruction I laid down
before I deposited the box, that I needed maximum security/safety of my
consignment and no body nor government organization can trace the where
about of the box until I am ready and prepare to claim it. for this reason
the security company used their diplomatic means to send the box out of
Philippines to Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire where they have their underground
secrete vault.

This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure.
This means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk
box that was sent from the Philippine to Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire under a
diplomatic coverage for safe keeping.My main purpose of sending you this
mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give
you this priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you
think is very secure and save in your country with your percentage of which
we shall chat on soon. In fact, since the death of my husband, his brothers
has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress
me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate
them.

They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped
there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband,which
I did, but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company
in Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire, because this is where my future and destiny lies
upon.

The family of my late husband never aware of the secret existence of thisdeposit
which I made with the security company and they can never be aware of it
Out of fear of my late husbands family, and when the situation becomes uncontrollable
because of pressure on me from theGovernment of the Philippines,I decide
to look for a trustworthy person who could assist me retrieve this box of
money from the security company for onward lodgement into his account for
the purpose of future investment. Consider my situation as a widow and
come to my rescue please i beg of you with all honesty. There is need for
urgent action because I'm paying $50 dollars per day as a demurrage to the
security company for safe keeping this consignment and i must be very frank
with you that i am running out of the available fund now.

N/B Right now because of my late husband's brothers disturbance it has resulted
a heart attack for me right now i am undergoing medical treatment in london
i want you to put me in your daily prayers is very important because i know
that is only God that hills.

I have already paid for safe keeping charges,so you do not have to bother
about this fee,upon your acceptance i will trust you and issue you with
deposit reference code for you to call the security company.I will appreciate
you immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hearing from you
soon. for quick prcessing and conclusion of this business transaction,this
is really counting upon you for the success of this transaction. I have
discussed with the security company and they have agreed to dispatch this
consignment to you in your country by diplomatic courier services mission
as part of thier shippment services to clients worldwide.Please
contact me urgently upon your acceptance so that we can discuss how to go
about this transaction speedily and accomplished it.

Thanking you in anticipation of your very kind and humane gesture and looking
forward to hearing considerably from you,this wishing you all the best and
God blessings.

Thanks and kind regards,

Madam Villaran Nenita.





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