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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. Lyn Guarin" <mr1@zaz.att.ne.jp>
Reply-To: mrslyng2013@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 4:04:29 +0900
Subject: Please Read From Mrs. Lyn Guarin.

Hello Dear,

My name is Lyn Guarin, The wife of Mr. Christopher Guarin, my husband was shot and killed recently while driving home with me, and our only daughter, my late husband was an outspoken journalist and also publisher and editor-in-chief of the daily tabloid Newspaper in my country Philippine.

During my late husband death threats, he gave me the total sum of $US 7, million dollars for the up keeping/future of our only daughter and he ask me to put it in a metallic box and deposit it in a security and finance company in abroad.

This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure.
This means that the security company does not even know the content of this trunk box. Since the death of my late husband, the Philippine government has blocked all me and my late husband account and also my late husband family has succeed in collecting from me all the properties of my late husband, trying to leave me with nothing for the future of my daughter,

I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money in the box for the future of my daughter.

Since my late husband family made it impossible for me to have access to calls or to move out of the house as they always monitor me. I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money for the future of my daughter since the government and my late husband family is monitoring all my movement.

I hope to trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it. i will give you 20% of the total money for your assistance to me. if you are willing to help me, email me back (mrslyng2013@gmail.com)

Best regards
Mrs. Lyn Guarin

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