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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: "MS.SANDRA TANKO" <sandratanko05@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:57:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM SANDRA / MORE INFOMATION


Dear Sir,
Thank you for your interest in my business proposal and this transaction. How are you today? I hope you are fine. It my pleasure to let you know the full details and more information of this transaction. And I want to let you know that hence you have accepted to do this business with me your urgent co-operations are highly needed, so that we can be able to get the business concluded withine the space of one week which is the time duration good for its conclussion.

The first thing I want you to do before we proceed in this business is your international passport, I want you to send me a copy of you international passport by email attachment for me to know whom I'm dealing with for my own security and guarantee that as soon as this MONEY is paid into your account, you will take 40% share of the total sum of the money for any asistance you shall render in this business for the success of this transaction before and after and give me 60 percent share of the total fund. The aim of your passport will be for my own security, so that you will not betray me when this fund comes into your account. After you have asured me and send a copy of your passport, I will then secretly programme your name and your complete informations in the computer account file of late MR. ABUDEL WAZIRI, in our bank computer file, as his registered associate and next of kin / beneficiary who is in position to inherit the money which he left in our bank encase of
death.

After the computer programming, I will send to you a TEXT of an APPLICATION LETTER FOR CLAIMS which you will re-writte and send to the banking and operation unit of our bank for the claim of this fund in our bank here in Abidjan. When you send the Application Letter for Claims to our bank, the banking and operation unit will go into verification through the computer account file of our bank, they will see your name and informations as MR. ABUDEL WAZIRI Associates, which will proove that you are his next of kin. The banking and operation unit will immediately approve your claims.

The account /operation department of our bank will then withdraw the total of the USD$ 8. million from the fixed deposit account and pay inn the total amount and it's interest into your account in your country.

As of now what you have to do, is to give to me your private telephone, fax numbers including your full name and complete address, to enable me programmed your information secretly in the computer account file of LATE MR. ABUDEL WAZIRI

I want you to understand that this business which we are doing needs high secret and confidentiality, and as such you should not let any of our bank staff to know about this deal. And also do not let any person from your side to know about this business bearing in mind how much that is involve, let us work together with one mind and archive this business, the must important thing in this business is truth and honest.

Always reply my mails through this my private email address ( sandratanko05@yahoo.com) for confidential and security reasons. And you can also call me on my house telephone ( 0022507601411) at 7.00 am in the morning before I go to work or you call me at 8 pm in the eveing by then I must have close from the office, so that we can discourse secretly for the interest of this business.

Have a nice day and I'm looking forward to hear your urgent response, to enable us proceed immediately and conclude this deal in next four days and get this fund credicted into you account.Then I will resign and come to your country for my own share and I will like to invest some of my share of the money in your country with your kind advice.


Best regards,
Ms.Sandra Tanko





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