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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: amanda.muzazah@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:47:43 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20=20=20MRS=20=20=20AMANDA=20=20=20MUZAZAH=2E?=


From;Mrs Amanda Muzazah.
Phillipine.

Dear Respected One,

My name is Madam Amanda Muzazah. 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 12.3 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 this deposit 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 the Government 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 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,you can contact me with my alternative email address(amanda_muzazah00@yahoo.fr)

Thanks and kind regards,
Madam Amanda.









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