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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Ella Snizore" <ellasniz03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ellasniz7@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:14:49 -1000
Subject: From Mrs Ella

Gooday,

I am Mrs. Ella Snizore from the Philippines, widow to the late former
minister of finance in Philippine who died on 14th of May 2005. I
inherited a total sum of $21.5 Million American dollars from my late
husband, the money was concealed in a metallic trunk box and was
deposited with a security and finance company in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire, that
was because I needed a maximum security/safety of my consignment and no body
or government organization can trace the where about of the money until I am
ready and prepare to claim it. but the Secucrity company didn't know the
real content of the box, because it was deposited under a secret arrangement
as a family valuables.

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
for onward lodgement into your account for the purpose of future investment
with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon. I will send you the
Authorization Certificate to call them in my next mail 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 hear from
you soon.Address your response to my Private email adress
(ellasniz7@yahoo.com.ph)for more details of this transaction.

All the best,

Mrs. Ella Snizore

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