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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: "From Madam Marisa Mayor." <mmayor52@cantv.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 6:22:34 -0300
Subject: Greetings,

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Greetings,

My name is Madam Marisa Mayor. A complete citizen of the Philippines,widow
to the late Mr Desmond Mayor. who died of ulcer and he has been buried. I
inherited a total sum of 4.3 million dollars from my late husband, the
money is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and
finance company in Cote D' Ivoire Due to the instruction he laid down
before he deposited the box, that he needed maximum security/safety of my
consignment and no body nor government organization can trace where about of
the box until were ready and prepare to claim it.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.

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 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 never aware of the secret existence of this
deposit which my late husband 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 family,
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.
You can send me an email to my private email address as soon as i recieve
your mail and will reply with full details and also wait for your
anwser.Here is my Id
( mmayor52@cantv.net )

All the best,
Madam Marisa Mayor.



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Mensagem enviada pelo UebiMiau 2.7.2

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