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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: nenita1@terra.com.mx
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:38:48 +0000
Subject: From Madam Nenita

Dearest 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 2003. 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 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-
Côte 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.

There is need for urgent action, And as soon as you shows your interest
to assist me, I will forword to you the security company contact for you
to contact them and give them your safe address for the immediate shipment
of the trunk box . I will also send you the Authorization Certificate which
is the Certificate of deposit that they gave me on the very day when the
box of money was deposited under their company.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hearing
from you soon.

All the best,
Madam Villaran Nenita



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