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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: Mrs Anabelle Arturo Tabara <anabelle600@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: anebelle600@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:47:05 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM MRS.ANABELLE ARTURO TABARA. I AM WAITING FOR YOUR SPEED RESPONSE TO MY MAIL.THANKS.


Dear
Friend,

 


 Compliments
of the day to you, how are you over there with your entire family? I hope all
is well. I know this email will get to you as a surprise but you don't need to
ignore it rather read below and know the proposal i am entrusting into your
care. Well, Let me fully introduced myself to you, i am Mrs. Anabelle Arturo
Tabara, husband to late Mr. and Mrs. Arturo Tabara from Philippines
. My hobbies are, meeting people swimming and cooking which my best interest in
life. Regard to my biography life and my entire family my father was murdered
on the month of (14th  September 2004) base on political crisis, due to
the fact that he was the Leader of the Philippines Communist Group(PCG) then.

 


 Since
the death of my late husband i have been hospitalize right here in Philippines
for some time due to my illness (Cancer of the throat/heart) also because of
what my late husband relatives are doing to me. They wanted to claim every
property that belongs to my late husband, because i did not have a child for
their late brother and also i supposed to know where my late husband kept his
documents of the properties when he was alive and as i am mailing from my
hospital room/bed with tears on my face.

 


 But
understand that i cannot chat with you or call you because Msn and Yahoo
Messenger is not installed in the laptop that i am using here in the hospital
and we are not allowed to use telephone in "post operation ward" and
"intensive care unit ward".

 


 Well
despite my situation what bothers me most is my late Husband fund Five Million
United State Dollars(U.S. $5 Million) that will be a waste if nothing is done
urgently as that is the major reason why i contacted you. This fund was
deposited in Security Company, Abidjan in Cote d'ivoire by my late Husband
before his untimely death which he concealed the fund in a metallic trunk box
as family valuables and deposited it with the security company instead of a
bank due to the fact that he was the head leader of the strongest opposition group
in PHILIPPINES then.

 


 Since
i am the real next of kin and wife to the depositor what i am suppose to do
after you have sent  me your international passport and other proofs of
your identity to avoid betrayal after the consignment liftment to you is for me
to send all the documents of the deposit and the security company's full
contact details to you so that you can apply for the release of the consignment
which the security company will not hesitate to process the release once i
consent to it though i will first confirm your identity and your capability of
been able to help me because this is all i have at the moment and in this life
which i must be very careful of whom i shall entrust it to and must also be
used for charity work which will be named after my late husband on the
completion..

 


 So
i want your re-affirmation that you are capable to help me transfer the
consignment as what you will have to do after i have sent all the necessary
documents to you is just for you to contact the security company as my late
husband's business partner and find out what it will take the security company
to process and transfer the consignment to you through their diplomatic courier
service. Then after clearing with the security company you will direct them on
how to lift the consignment to you.

 


 Please
i want to let you know that i am banking on you, i have no other person to
relate my problems to, every member of my late husbands family have turned
against me because of my husbands left over before he died, and i wouldn’t like
to dispose any of my plans to them until i finally seal this consignment
liftment with your assistance and actualize my dreams of a charity
establishment in the name of my late husband.

 


 
I took this decision because i did not have a child for my late husband and
because of how my late husband relatives have treated me with so much
dis-regard and hatred even with my health condition and have also ceased all my
late husbands property which this fund in the security company is all that they
could not get hold of because it was not deposited in Philippines.

 


 
I am willing to do anything to assist in the liftment of this consignment to
you only if you assure me of ensuring that a charity home and home for HIV/AIDS
will be built with part of the fund in my late husband status and name. Please
i want an answer to all questions as listed below so that i can be more assured
that you are really genuine and ready to help me before sending you the
documents of the deposit and the security company's contact details that you
shall use to apply for the consignment release and liftment to you:-

 


 1.if
you are ready to keep the transaction as top secret because i do not want my
late husband relatives to know about this consignment in Africa after they took
possession of all my late husband accounts and properties in Philippines.

 


 
2. Your capability and credibility in handling this transaction in every
ramification.

 


 3.
Your credibility and reliability as to avoid betrayal from you or seating on
the entire fund when the trunk box is finally received by you.

 


 4.
That all my instructions as the initiator of the transaction would be taking
for the betterment and hitch-free of the consignment liftment to you.

 


 I
will highlight you more on what to do as soon as you send your details and the
proof of your identity so that i will have all the confident to entrust the
transaction into your care without any fear and for us to proceed with the
claim proceedings without further delay.

 


 On
the receipt of your response i will send my personal photographs, my medical
report and my international passport for your view so that you will have the
confident to go at any length to help me.

 


I am
soliciting for your speedy response to my email with your full details and
proof of your identity so that we can precede with the consignment release and
liftmen proceedings without further delay.

 


Best
Regards,

Mrs.
Anabelle Arturo Tabara.

 

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