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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 villaran" <nenita_villaran225@lycos.com>
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 03:34:27 -0500
Subject: FROM MRS NENITA VILLARAN

FROM MRS NENITA VILLARAN
RUE 4789 COCCODY ABIDJAN
COTE D 'IVOIRE
EMAIL.(nenitavvnnv@yahoo.com)

Dear Lovelly In Christ,

I was touched and moved to contact you for assistance in this
transaction becuase of my present predicament and my avowed fate in
God that you will not cheat me or betray this trust.

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 million dollars(Twelve
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 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 secured and save in your country
with your percentage of which we shall discuss 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 is 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 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
processing and conclusion of this business transaction,I am 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 accomplish
it.Thanking you in anticipation of your very kind and humane gesture
and looking forward to hearing from you, this wishing you all the
best.

NB:Please reply me through my secured private email
address: (nenitavvnnv@yahoo.com)

Thanks and kind regards,

Madam Villaran Nenita




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