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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: "Elizabeth D Tinambacan" <ellittt892008@gmail.com>
Reply-To: elli_tinambacan@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:48:46 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear, CAN YOU BE MY SUPERVISION PARTNERS ?


CAN YOU BE MY SUPERVISION PARTNERS ?

Hello Dear,

complements of the seasons, how was your day after daily stress? i hope
you're good and your family.

My name is Elizabeth D.Tinambacan,The wife of Rev. Jemias Tinambacan who
was the Deputy Secretary General of Bayan Muna party-list group in Southern
Tagalog. who is recently attack and killed in philippine on the 27 may 2006.

Before my late husband was killed, I inherited sum total of ($14,000.000
USD. Fourteen Million USDollars) from some cocoa business import we made
with my late husband, this money which my late husband put in a metallic
trunk box and deposited it in a security and finance company in Cote D'
Ivoire. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family
treasure. This means that the security company does not know the content of
this trunk box.

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 shipping the box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country.

I hope to trust you as who will not seat on this money when you claim it. i
made up my mind to give you 25% of the total money for your help, after you
have secured the box for my kids future. Hopping to hear from you soon.

Elizabeth D. Tinambacan.

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