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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: "villaran nenita" <v-nenita31@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: v_nenita109@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:28:12 +0000
Subject: Attn:Dearest one,

Attn:Dearest one,

My name is Madam Nenita Villaran, A complete citizen of Philippines, widow
to the late former minister of finance in Philippine who was a victim of the
terrorist attack against the country by the Abu sayyaf movement in the
southern luxury beach region on the 11th April 2002 that rendered many
people of different nationals dead. I inherited a total sum of 8.2 million
dollars from my late husband,This money which is concealed in a metallic
trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company AFRICA under a
secret arrangement as a family treasure. This means that the security
company does not know the content of this box that was shipped from the
Philippine to AFRICA under a diplomatic coverage.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give this priority of shipping this box of money
to any address that you think is very secure and safe in your country with
your percentage of which we shall discuss on soon. There is need for urgent
action because the consignment is accruing charges per day as demurrage to
the security company for safekeeping couple with the resent attempt of coup
plot last july that has distracted attention of the government and the
security delegates on me.

I will forward to you the full contact address of the lawyer who i have his
contact through my late husband and also the security company contact in
AFRICA Cote D Ivoire in my next response. I give thanks immensely for the
co-operation as I look forward to your urgent response.



Best Regard ,
Madam Nenita Villaran.

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