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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: mrs_vil1@terra.com.mx
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:07:07 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Villaran Nenita.

From;Mrs Villaran Nenita.
Phillipine.
Endeavour to respond through this my ultanative email (mrs_vil@yahoo.com)

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 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 situationas 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.
Endeavour to respond through this my ultanative email (mrs_vil@yahoo.com)
Thanks and kind regards,
Madam Villaran Nenita.

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