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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: teresita pernia <joylentreya3@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: teresita pernia <teresita.pernia@yandex.ru>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 21:05:29 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: hello


 Hello Dear ,

My Name is Mrs. Teresita Pernia Reyes the wife of late Dr Angelo Tomas Reyes A former Philippine military chief and cabinet minister who was shot by gunmen and later he died in a gunshot wound on February 8, 2011 . my late husband had in recent weeks made headlines after a former military budget officer accused him of siphoning off enormous amounts of money from state coffers while armed forces chief of staff from 2000 to 2001. he was the military chief under then- President Joseph Estrada, who was forced to stand down as the nation's leader mid-term after himself being accused of corruption ,Reyes my late husband also served as cabinet minister and a range of other high-profile positions during previous president Gloria Arroyo's term from 2001 to last year. He had been secretary of the defense, environment, energy and interior ministries, as well as presidential adviser on anti-smuggling. Since the death of my late husband the philippines government have been threating my family and recently they sentence my first son Angelo Reyes JR 15 YEARS NOW so i 'm no longer self . my late husband deposited sum of US $ 10,200,000.00 ( Ten million two Hundred thousand united states dollars) in the security company .he deposit this money in a security and finance company abroad through diplomatic secret arrangement and made the deposit as a family valuable just in case anything ever happen to him. this means that the security company does not know the real content of the metallic box since the death of my late husband, the philippine state government has blocked all my entired family account Also my late husband brothers succeeded in collecting all our properties from me that is under our control and they are still looking for more.

Therefore I am contacting you to help me secure the sum which I explain to you since the philippines government had made it impossible for me to move out of , please do tell me if I can trust you and will not sit on this money, when you claim it. I am willing to give you 20% of the total sum of money then i will come over to meet you in your country for you to help me invest the money in a good business that will benefit both families , as soon as i receive your message indicating your interest in handling this transaction i will give you more details write me directely on my private mail

Thanks

Mrs Teresita P Reyes

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