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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: "ltbacan@yahoo.co.jp" <ltbacan@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Mrs Elizabeth M.Tinambacan

From Mrs Elizabeth M.Tinambacan


My name is Mrs Elizabeth M.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 9th may 2006.Before my late husband was killed, he has the sum of ($14,000.000 USD.Fourteen Million US Dollars) from some cocoa business import he made,this money which he put in a SECURITY COMPANY in Europe. I am contacting you because I want you to help me in retrieving this fund to your country for the future of my children. I hope to trust you as whom will not sit on this money when you claim it .i made up my mind to give you 10% of the total money for your help after you must have claimed the money.

Hoping to hear from you. on email, because i can not talk to you on phone for now, because after the death of my husband, unknown people are monitoring me, and they have also tried to kill me as well, for now i and my children dose not go out, so as soon as you retrieve the box, i and my children will move out of Philippine immediately to meet with you in your country.


I will give you more directives about this as soon as I hear from you.


Elizabeth M.Tinambacan

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