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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: "villaran nenita" <villarannenita_111@msn.com>
Reply-To: villarannenita_111@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:51 +0000
Subject: From:Mrs Villaran Nenita.

From:Mrs Villaran Nenita.
Phillipine.

Dear 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
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 th
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
become 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 I plead 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 courrier
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.

Thanks and kind regards,
Madam Villaran Nenita.


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