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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: Nita Negranza <nitanegranza8@att.net>
Reply-To: nitanegranza8@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:52:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FROM NITA NEGRANZA.


Dear Beloved,

 

       Greetings and compliments of the day to
you and your entire family?

 

 Firstly, let me fully tell you
about myself and also my biographical details about my entire family. I am
Mrs. Nita Muhammad Negranza, a citizen of Philippines, husband to Late Mr. Muhammad Negranza, who worked in Philippines Embassy in Ivory
Coast as one of the Philippines
foreign representatives in our embassy for nine years before his untimely death
on the Month of 12th June 2007.

 

  We were married for 15 years
without a child. Well, my late husband died after a brief illness that lasted
for only four days. I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my
matrimonial home due to the love i have for my late husband. On the month of
October 2010, i fell sick and without urgent treatment and a specialist from my
country (Dr. Amando Lerma) Medical Officer "GARCIA MEDICAL
CENTRE"(G.M.C.) hospital was handling my illness(Cancer of the
throat/heart) till today right here in Philippines which I will even send to
you my medical certificate that was issued to me by the hospital management the day I was hospitalized on the 12th October 2010.

 

  Before the death of my late
husband on the Month of 12th June 2007 where he was hospitalized, he sincerely
called me on his bed side and told me that he had a sum of $5 Million American
dollars, that he deposited in a "SECURITY AND FINANCE COMPANY" in
Ivory Coast, before he finally die which he highlighted me everything about the
fund the way it was deposited.

 

   Something interested me
most before sending you this email and i really want to chose you for this
transaction though i barely know who you are... but, i believe you will find it
in your mind to help me out of this present fate. I am willing to do anything
to assist in the transferring of this fund to you only if you assure me of
ensuring that a "Petroleum Station" will be built with part of the
fund in my late husband status and name in your country.

 

   My main purpose of
sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy
to give you this priority of transferring the money to any address that you
think is very secure and save in your country for onward lodgement into your
account for the purpose of future investment with your percentage. I will send
you the Authorization Certificate to call them in my next mail which is the
Deposit Certificates that they gave to my late husband which i finally found
the documents in the business email account of my late husband on the very
day when the fund was deposited under their custoday though I will reward you
with 30% of the entire fund($5 Million) after receipt of the fund transfer to
you for your financial assistance and endeavors while the balance 70% will be
used for the proposed project establishment which will be named after my late
husband on the completion.

 

I give thanks immensely for your
co-operation as I look forward to hear from you.

 

Best Regards,

Mrs. Nita Negranza.

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