419 scam: Maria Fernandez <dvancmh@gmail.com> Maria.

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "trunk box" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "million american dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Maria Fernandez <dvancmh@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fer_napaqu56@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:40:52 +0000
Subject: Maria.

Hello Dear,
please to meet you though you don't know me very well and i know you do get
this kind of message all the time but, after consulting your profile, I feel
like meeting with you.
I am Maria Fernandez a Filipinos as you know already and a widow since on
the 15th of May 2006. I was working with the high curt of Philippines before
this day and i am no more working. I want to confide in you to go out of
Philippines for my future investment. Please bear with me as this world is
full of wicked people and Internet also but I put my faith in God as I have
no other choice but to take the risk. I inherited from my late husband the
sum of 12.000.000 American dollars (twelve million American dollars). This
money, I hid it in a metallic box and deposited it with a company of finance
and safety here in Philippines.
I am in Philippines at this moment.

But do to my childlessness, the brothers of my late husband has taken
everything from me up to the joint bank account with the Equity bank here in
Manila. So, I insisted that the company should remove the box from here to
avoid trace and they used their diplomatic means to send my box out of
Philippines to the head office of their company in Spain. This box was
deposited as family valuables, This is why I decided to seek a trust worthy
person outside Philippines who will help me to withdraw this trunk box from
the company before it's too late and also for me to go out of Philippine for
my future investment. Please I ask you to consider my situation as a widow
and come to my aide today it is very urgent.
Thank you and God bless you
Maria.

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