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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 Aline Arsenio <sssroce12@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.alinearsenio@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 10:30:34 +0000
Subject: My Dear Beloved

Hello Dear,
My Name is Aline Lin Arsenio, from Philippine and the wife of Mayor
Arsenio Agustin, my husband was the Ilocos Norte town mayor, who was
shot to death on Saturday morning  June 03, 2017 by gunmen,

Before the death of my Husband, he gave me the total sum of
US$15,500,000 (Fifteen million Five hundred thousand united states
dollars) and asks me to put it in a metallic box, then deposit it in a
security and finance company abroad,

I did deposit the total sum as my late husband gave it to me under a
secret arrangement as a family valuable. This means that the security
company does not know the content of this metallic box.

Since the death of my late husband, the Philippine state government
has blocked i and my late husband accounts through the help of my late
husband family. Also my late husband brothers have succeeded in
collecting from me all our properties that is under my control and
they are still threaten me.

Therefore I am contacting you to help me secure the money from the
security company where i deposited the fund. Since my late husband
family made it impossible for me to move around or travel out of
Philippine.

If you can help me secure this money and keep this transaction
confidence between us, I am willing to give you 10% percent of the
total sum in that box after you have successfully secured it. This
transaction is 100% risk free.
And for safety reasons i will close my profile on this site so write me

Best regards
Mrs. Aline Arsenio

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