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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Fraud email example:

From: "MADAM NENITA M. VILLARAN" <madamnenitav@pisem.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 04:54:36 +0200
Subject: FROM: MADAM NENITA M. VILLARAN.


FROM: MADAM NENITA M. VILLARAN
OSMEMA AVENUE LOT 12,
LAPU-LAPU CITY, 6017 CEBU,
PHILIPPINES.
Reply to: madamnenitav@pisem.net

Good Day,

My name is Madam Nenita Maria Villaran, a complete citizen of Philippines, widow to the late former minister of finance in Philippine who was a victim of the terrorist attack against the country by the Abu sayyaf movement in the southern luxury beach region on the 11th April 2002 that rendered many people of different nationals dead.

I inherited a total sum of 12 million dollars from my late husband, This
money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a
security and finance company in Cote Ivory Coast under a secret arrangement
as a family Valuables.

This means that the security company does not know the content of this box
that was shipped from the Philippine to Ivory Coast under a diplomatic
coverage. My main purpose of sending your this mail is because of the way I
found you and perhaps trustworthy to give this priority of shipping this
box of money to any address that you think is very secure and safe in your
country with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon.

There is need for urgent action because the consignment is accruing charges
per day as demurrage to the security company for safekeeping couple with
the resent attempt of coup plot last July that has distracted attention of
the government and the security delegates on me.

I will furnish you with the contact of the security company in Ivory Coast
for you to call them and give them your address for the immediate shipment
of the box to your base. I will send you the Authorization Certificate to
call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they
gave me on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their
company.

I give thanks immensely for the co-operation as I look forward to your
urgent response.

Best Regard

Madam Nenita M. Villaran.

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