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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: Mrs tanni Ali <mrs_tanni_ali8@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: mrs_tanni_ali3@gawab.com
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I need urgent response Please!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrs_tanni_ali8@yahoo.ca

Dear,

Greetings to you! May the Peace and Understanding of the Almighty God be your portion always. I crave your Indulgence to present this proposal to you with clean heart and Mind.

I am Mrs.Tanni Ali from Ghana, West Africa, formerly known as Gold Coast. I was married to Late Engineer Frederick Ali of blessed memory who was a Gold Miner for 13 years in Ghana Gold Mines Company before he died in the year 3rd Sept. 2005.

We were married for (14) Fourteen years without a child. He died after an accident that occurred from the collapse of a part of the mining ground , when a big rock hit his back. After his death, the shock has not left me still and recently I became a victim of High blood pressure and Cancer of the Breast, and the only remedy left according to my doctor now at Korlebu Teaching Hospital Accra Ghana where I am admitted is that the affected breast is cut off, otherwise I may have a few days to spend on this planet earth.

Coming to the reason why I contacted you,my husband when he was alive deposited the total sum of US$7.3million with Nicon Security Company Ghana Limited.

Having known my condition now, I decided to contact you for a great assistance and to serve as my next of kin/foreign partner in this (This is because of the value of the money in the consignment box to be claimed and transferred to your place) so as to enable me transfer the funds easily from the security company to your destination/place.

Once the claim and transfer is made, I will be enabled to make choice of one of the best Hospital in the world or around you that are good in treatment of cancer ailments for more professional touches to my health but this would only be possible when the deposited funds are claimed from the security company so that I can finance my travel to any country that can take good care of me and payment of bills at the hospital. What of your country? Do you have good doctors on Cancer?

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul? I had thought over the above statement and I concluded that you will assist me in investing the funds into whatever that will be of great benefit to the poor and the less priviledged. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money, I had only 1 sister and 1 brother from my parents, both died in a car accident some years ago, and my late husband was the only child of her parents, so I don't want a situation where these funds will be dumped unclaimed and unused in the security company, in the name of securing it, while I pass away. God will not be happy with me!

I am being assisted here only by my late husbands old lawyer friend and wife, who visits me at times at the hospital and I am glad to tell you that he will be the one to assist us in any legal requirements and paper works in the process of this claim and delivery of the consignment box to your place. I will not also forget to promise, that after the successful claim of the consignment, I will compensate you with 25% out of the total funds, and then you will help me also with the investment as I have earlier suggested. This is my Word and my Bond with you.

Pray for me always and I will also pray for you in your meditation over this plea, so that we will have an embracing relationship at last, bound with trust and doubt-free mind in actualizing the claim of these funds. I am waiting eagerly holding on for your voice of acceptance and continuation to the process of the claim so that I will tell you what you should do next. Bye and be blessed forever.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Shirley Tanni Ali.

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