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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: nenita_52@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:48:56 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=3BMadam=20Nenita=20Villaran=2E?=

From;Madam Nenita Villaran.
Phillipine.

Dear Respected One,

My name is Madam Nenita Villaran. 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 laterdied
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
ncontrollable 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.

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 blessing.

Thanks and kind regards,

Madam Nenita Villaran.




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