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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: MsOsh Diaz <msoshdiaz004@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Ms. Osh Diaz



Dear friend,
I have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have
approached you on this issue being that the Internet has been greatly
abused over the recent time and is very unsecured for informations of
vital importance.

I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail.

However, It has been my dream to have a kind of joint business
venture in your locality due to its lucrative investment atmosphere.

I am Ms. Osh Diaz(Fillipino)who was then the special courier mistress of
the then former ousted president of Philippine (Joseph Estrada)now on
political trials concerning financial misappropriation of his country's national fund.

While working for him as special courier protocol, He used myself to
deposit a metallic truck containing huge sum about eleven million
united states dollars in a security company in remote states in Africa
in disguised of family valuable to avoid taxation or eyes on the metallic truck.

Although, then he promised and bestowed a lot of pledges he never fulfilled rather he resorted in plotting against me that compelled me to have rethink in living in Manila any further.

Fortunately, for me every related deposit documentation to this deposit had been in my custody, and I decided I need seek your partnership and kind of liaisoning assistance from you that if you will be able to be of assistance in helping me have this metallic trunk relocated from its present position to your country while I join you later for a joint partnership venture if you don't mind.

This assistance will not require any of private information on your
finance, be assured. I will be expecting to hear from you to this regard, so I will give to you more details regarding my personalities and detail info of the security and financial company over there to you so that you reach the security company as my business representative to retrieve the said metallic trunk containing the mentioned sum as well as subsequent request for the shipment of the metallic trunk to your place without you going down there.

I will be waiting to hear from you regarding my proposal so that we can go
ahead having the metallic trunk relocated to your place while I join you and the metallic trunk on arrival in your place for a joint business investment venture.

Best regards,
Ms. Osh Diaz.



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