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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: CHINASA COLLINS <mrs_chinasacollins335@yahoo.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2006 09:57:36 -0000
Subject: Dear Respected one,

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




Dear Respected one,



CONFIDENTIAL





My name is Madam Chinasa Collins 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 Nigera Abuja 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 Nigerai Abuja

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 ithonstant 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 Nigeria Abuja, 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

situation as a widow and come to my rescue.



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.



I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear

from you soon.



All the best,

Madam Chinasa Collins



Pleas reply me via my privet email address:mrs_chinasacollins335@yahoo.com










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