419 scam: "Mrs Tina Tagro"<mrs.tinatagro@ibibo.com> From: Madam Tina Tagro

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "trunk box" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- tina.tagro@yahoo.fr (Yahoo, France; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Tina Tagro" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tina.tagro@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:03:13 -0400
Subject: From: Madam Tina Tagro

From: Madam Tina Tagro

My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son David intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding before you can succeed sometimes in life. Let me start by introducing myself to you, My Name is Mrs Tina Tagro the wife of late Mr. Desire Tagro, My Husband was one of the former President Laurent Gbagbo cabinet, but unfortunately he was killed during the crisis in our country last year.

I believed I can confide in you for the brighter future of my Son since you are a human being like me. There is this huge amount of Ten Million five hundred thousand United States dollars. ($10.500.000.00) which my late Husband putted in a trunk box and deposited it with one private security company in Europe before the crisis, I and my Son are the only people that knows about this money, even the security company where my late Husband deposited the money did not know the content of the box because he deposited the box as family valuable not as money, Now I and my Son have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us claim and retrieve this fund from the Security Company and transfer the money into your personal account in your country for investment purposes in these areas:

1). Telecommunication
2).The transport Industry
3). Five Star Hotel
4). Tourism
5). Real Estate

If you can be of assistance to us we will be pleased to offer you 20% of the total fund. We have all the documents that the security company issued my late Husband on the day he deposited the box, we will soon forward these documents to you which will help you to claim the box on our behalf. I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Mrs Tina Tagro and Son David Tagro
PLEASE DO REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE MAIL: tina.tagro@yahoo.fr

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