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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• 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 us 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 "dying widow" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: tabara_v@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:17:05 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello dear,

Hello dear,

I write you this mail with a sense of recorgnition, trust and confidence on your person. Although never written you before, but I ask for your patience and understanding as you read my mail.

I am Mrs. Veronica Tabara, the widow to late Arturo Tabara who was the former head of the Visayas Commission of the CPP and also a former member of the Central Committee and Politburo in Philippine Who was murdered in cold blood along side with Mr.Stephen Ong. My late husband was shot dead at the
parking lot of SM Fairview in Quezon City in September 26, 2004. His sudden demise has been a great shock to me and my children.

During my late husband's regime as head of the Visayas Commission of the CPP and also a former member of the Central Committee and Politburo in Philippine, he realized some reasonable amount of money from various contracts and fishery business that he successfully executed, and during his death
threat, he secretely made the deposit of the total sum of $16.5Million US dollars for the up keeping and future of our children and his political life. This deposit was made in metallic trunk box under the custody and safe keeping of a security and finance company abroad.

Well, I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money in the box for investment in your country for the future of my children now that the Government has blocked my account in Bank of America and my late husband's assets ceased by the Philippine Government trying to leave
me with nothing. All my efforts seeking for intervention to unravel and bring to judgement those behind the death of my husband has not yielded any fruit and right now I am exusted and had to leave everything to God. For the sake of my children, I need your urgent help. If for no other thing,
consider the tears of a widow like me and her children.

I hope to trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it. I will give you 15% of the total money after you have successfully secured the box for your assistance to me. If you are willing to help me, kindly reply me immidiately.

Thanks and I wait to hear from you urgently.
Best regards,
Mrs. Veronica Tabara,



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