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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: "LUZSTELLA CASTILLO TARBODA" <luzstellacastillo@castarboda.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:33:57 -0700
Subject: NEGOTIATIONS

Dear Sir,

I am the confidant of the ex-president of the philipines (Mr.Joseph Estrada)
who was removed from power as you may know. He has secretly informed me to
contact you and to liase with you to invest the sum of $21M (Twenty one
million dollars) which he deposited in a finance/security house during his
tenure.The format for the deposit is Open Beneficiary.

Now the proceedures are that you will provide a suitable account where you
want this money transfered into from his account since he can not come out
in the open to use this money.
You will have all the deposit documents as well as POA to administer this
resource.

We are willing to conceed up to 25% of the total sum to you for all the
anticipated help from you hoping that it will cover all your expenditures
before and after the transaction.

However, we will desire that you will help us invest our share till we will
be free to meet you up in your country for further talks.Please if this
proposal is Ok by you, write me back via this address so that I can give you
all informations to formalise this trasaction.

Best Regards.

Luzstila Castarboda


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